Elixir product analytics installation

1

Install

Required

Add the PostHog Elixir library to your mix.exs dependencies:

mix.exs
def deps do
    [
        {:posthog, "~> 1.1.0"}
    ]
end

2

Configure

Required

Add your PostHog configuration to your config file:

config/config.exs
config :posthog,
    api_url: "https://us.i.posthog.com",
    api_key: "<ph_project_api_key>"

3

Send events

Recommended

Once installed, you can manually send events to test your integration:

Elixir
Posthog.capture("user_123", "button_clicked", %{
    button_name: "signup"
})

By default, for backwards compatibility reasons, events are sent with person profile processing enabled. This means a person profile will be created for each user who triggers an event.

If you want to disable person profile processing for certain events, send the event with the following property:

Elixir
"$process_person_profile" => false

4

Next steps

Recommended

Resource	Description
Capturing events	Learn how to capture custom events beyond autocapture
Identifying users	Associate events with specific users
Creating insights	Build trends, funnels, and retention charts
Group analytics	Track events at the company or account level

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