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What we're building

  • Logs product

    Basics:

    • Log Collection: Capture logs from web apps or other digital tools in real-time, supporting structured (JSON, XML) and unstructured (plain text) log formats.
    • Centralized Dashboard: View and filter logs by source, severity, timestamp, or keywords, all from a unified interface. Search &...
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Recently shipped

Autocapture service metrics

Python services can turn on Metrics autocapture for HTTP requests, database operations, and runtime health. It uses OpenTelemetry instrumentors and excludes raw URLs, query paths, headers, and SQL statements.

Goals

Q4 2026 Objectives

Observability Platform

  • PostHog All The Things: PostHog runs on PostHog
    • Kill Loki+VictoriaMetrics
  • Earn trust: set and meet SLOs
    • Set lag threshold
    • No correctness bugs for metrics
    • Track UI/query latency

Observability Product

  • Ship Metrics in GA with revenue
    • Pricing published
  • Observability as top of funnel: Make switching easy
    • Better migrations (one command migrations?)

Alerting

  • Unified Alerting in Production

Handbook

What the APM team does

The APM (Application Performance Management) team builds PostHog's observability products: logs, traces, and metrics.

Logs

  • Log ingestion
  • Log querying
  • Log storage

Traces

  • Distributed tracing

Metrics

  • Metrics ingestion, storage, and querying

How to work with the APM team

Reach out in our Slack channel #team-apm