Automatite + PostHog Integration
Connect PostHog to Automatite. Trigger workflows on PostHog events and run actions back into PostHog.
Open-source product analytics.
Auth: API Key · Official site
Triggers
- • Threshold crossed
- • Anomaly detected
- • New event tracked
- • New record in PostHog
Actions
- • Track event
- • Identify user
- • Log metric
- • Create record in PostHog
- • Update record in PostHog
Popular workflows
- → When a new posthog record is created, send a Slack notification
- → Sync PostHog records to your data warehouse on a schedule
- → Use AI to enrich and classify new records from PostHog
Setup steps
- Authenticate PostHog via API Key
- Pick the trigger event you want to react to
- Map fields from PostHog into downstream actions
- Test the workflow with a real event and toggle it on
The PostHog integration lets Automatite both react to events in posthog and write data back into it. Authenticate once via API Key, pick a trigger, and start building workflows that span every other app in your stack.
What you can build
PostHog workflows in Automatite typically combine a trigger (an event in PostHog) with one or more downstream actions across your other apps. Common patterns include syncing data into a warehouse, notifying teams in chat, enriching records with AI, and routing work to the right owner.
Because PostHog sits in the Analytics category, the most valuable workflows usually involve keeping it consistent with the rest of your stack — whether that means pushing data out, pulling data in, or triggering downstream actions when something interesting happens.
How the integration works
Each trigger emits a structured payload that Automatite forwards into your workflow as the first step’s output. From there, every downstream step has typed access to the fields — no manual JSON parsing, no string interpolation gotchas.
Actions take typed inputs that match the PostHog API, so you cannot accidentally send a string where a number is expected. If PostHog returns an error, Automatite retries with exponential backoff and surfaces the failure in your run history with the original payload preserved.
Setup
Connecting PostHog takes about three minutes. Click the integration in the workflow builder, complete the API Key flow, and you are ready to drop triggers and actions into any workflow. No API keys to rotate manually unless you choose to bring your own.