Insights-2

For instructions on how to authenticate to use this endpoint, see API overview.

Adds an "access_controls" action to the viewset that handles access control for the given resource

Why a mixin? We want to easily add this to any existing resource, including providing easy helpers for adding access control info such as the current users access level to any response.

Retrieve insights path

Required API key scopes

insight:read

Path parameters

  • project_id
    string

    Project ID of the project you're trying to access. To find the ID of the project, make a call to /api/projects/.

Query parameters

  • format
    string
    One of: "csv""json"

Request

GET /api/projects/:project_id/insights/path
export POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY=[your personal api key]
curl \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY" \
    <ph_app_host>/api/projects/:project_id/insights/path/

Response

Status 200 No response body

Create insights path

Required API key scopes

insight:read

Path parameters

  • project_id
    string

    Project ID of the project you're trying to access. To find the ID of the project, make a call to /api/projects/.

Query parameters

  • format
    string
    One of: "csv""json"

Request parameters

  • name
    string
  • derived_name
    string
  • filters
  • query

    Query node JSON string

  • order
    integer
  • deleted
    boolean
  • dashboards
    array
        DEPRECATED. Will be removed in a future release. Use dashboard_tiles instead.
    A dashboard ID for each of the dashboards that this insight is displayed on.
  • description
    string
  • tags
    array
  • favorited
    boolean
  • saved
    boolean

Request

POST /api/projects/:project_id/insights/path
export POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY=[your personal api key]
curl 
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json'\
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY" \
    <ph_app_host>/api/projects/:project_id/insights/path/\
	-d name="string"

Response

Status 200 No response body

Retrieve insights retention

Required API key scopes

insight:read

Path parameters

  • project_id
    string

    Project ID of the project you're trying to access. To find the ID of the project, make a call to /api/projects/.

Query parameters

  • format
    string
    One of: "csv""json"

Request

GET /api/projects/:project_id/insights/retention
export POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY=[your personal api key]
curl \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY" \
    <ph_app_host>/api/projects/:project_id/insights/retention/

Response

Status 200 No response body

Create insights retention

Required API key scopes

insight:read

Path parameters

  • project_id
    string

    Project ID of the project you're trying to access. To find the ID of the project, make a call to /api/projects/.

Query parameters

  • format
    string
    One of: "csv""json"

Request parameters

  • name
    string
  • derived_name
    string
  • filters
  • query

    Query node JSON string

  • order
    integer
  • deleted
    boolean
  • dashboards
    array
        DEPRECATED. Will be removed in a future release. Use dashboard_tiles instead.
    A dashboard ID for each of the dashboards that this insight is displayed on.
  • description
    string
  • tags
    array
  • favorited
    boolean
  • saved
    boolean

Request

POST /api/projects/:project_id/insights/retention
export POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY=[your personal api key]
curl 
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json'\
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY" \
    <ph_app_host>/api/projects/:project_id/insights/retention/\
	-d name="string"

Response

Status 200 No response body

Create insights timing

Path parameters

  • project_id
    string

    Project ID of the project you're trying to access. To find the ID of the project, make a call to /api/projects/.

Query parameters

  • format
    string
    One of: "csv""json"

Request parameters

  • name
    string
  • derived_name
    string
  • filters
  • query

    Query node JSON string

  • order
    integer
  • deleted
    boolean
  • dashboards
    array
        DEPRECATED. Will be removed in a future release. Use dashboard_tiles instead.
    A dashboard ID for each of the dashboards that this insight is displayed on.
  • description
    string
  • tags
    array
  • favorited
    boolean
  • saved
    boolean

Request

POST /api/projects/:project_id/insights/timing
export POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY=[your personal api key]
curl 
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json'\
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY" \
    <ph_app_host>/api/projects/:project_id/insights/timing/\
	-d name="string"

Response

Status 200 No response body

Retrieve insights trend

Required API key scopes

insight:read

Path parameters

  • project_id
    string

    Project ID of the project you're trying to access. To find the ID of the project, make a call to /api/projects/.

Query parameters

  • format
    string
    One of: "csv""json"

Request

GET /api/projects/:project_id/insights/trend
export POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY=[your personal api key]
curl \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY" \
    <ph_app_host>/api/projects/:project_id/insights/trend/

Response

Status 200 No response body

Create trends

Required API key scopes

insight:read

Path parameters

  • project_id
    string

    Project ID of the project you're trying to access. To find the ID of the project, make a call to /api/projects/.

Query parameters

  • format
    string
    One of: "csv""json"

Request parameters

  • events
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    array

    Events to filter on. One of events or actions is required.

  • actions
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    array

    Actions to filter on. One of events or actions is required.

  • properties

    Filter events by event property, person property, cohort, groups and more.

  • filter_test_accounts
    boolean

    Whether to filter out internal and test accounts. See "project settings" in your PostHog account for the filters.

  • date_from
    string
    Default: -7d

    What date to filter the results from. Can either be a date 2021-01-01, or a relative date, like -7d for last seven days, -1m for last month, mStart for start of the month or yStart for the start of the year.

  • date_to
    string
    Default: -7d

    What date to filter the results to. Can either be a date 2021-01-01, or a relative date, like -7d for last seven days, -1m for last month, mStart for start of the month or yStart for the start of the year.

  • breakdown
    string

    A property or cohort to break down on. You can select the type of the property with breakdown_type.

    • event (default): a property key
    • person: a person property key
    • cohort: an array of cohort IDs (ie [9581,5812])
  • breakdown_type
    Default: event

    Type of property to break down on.

    • event - event
    • person - person
    • cohort - cohort
    • group - group
    • session - session
    • hogql - hogql
  • compare
    boolean

    To compare or not

  • compare_to
    string

    What to compare to

  • display
    Default: ActionsLineGraph

    How to display the data. Will change how the data is returned.

    • ActionsLineGraph - ActionsLineGraph
    • ActionsLineGraphCumulative - ActionsLineGraphCumulative
    • ActionsTable - ActionsTable
    • ActionsPie - ActionsPie
    • ActionsBar - ActionsBar
    • ActionsBarValue - ActionsBarValue
    • WorldMap - WorldMap
    • BoldNumber - BoldNumber
  • formula
    string

    Combine the result of events or actions into a single number. For example A + B or (A-B)/B. The letters correspond to the order of the events or actions lists.

Response


Request

POST /api/projects/:project_id/insights/trend
export POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY=[your personal api key]
curl 
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json'\
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY" \
    <ph_app_host>/api/projects/:project_id/insights/trend/\
	-d events=[{"id":"$pageview"}]

Response

Status 200
RESPONSE
{
  "is_cached": true,
  "last_refresh": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "timezone": "UTC",
  "result": [
    {
      "data": [
        0
      ],
      "days": [
        "2019-08-24"
      ],
      "labels": [
        "string"
      ],
      "filter": {
        "events": [
          {
            "id": "string",
            "properties": [
              {
                "type": "AND",
                "values": [
                  {
                    "key": "string",
                    "value": "string",
                    "operator": "exact",
                    "type": "event"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ],
            "math": "total"
          }
        ],
        "actions": [
          {
            "id": "string",
            "properties": [
              {
                "type": "AND",
                "values": [
                  {
                    "key": "string",
                    "value": "string",
                    "operator": "exact",
                    "type": "event"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ],
            "math": "total"
          }
        ],
        "properties": {
          "type": "AND",
          "values": [
            {
              "key": "string",
              "value": "string",
              "operator": "exact",
              "type": "event"
            }
          ]
        },
        "filter_test_accounts": false,
        "date_from": "-7d",
        "date_to": "-7d"
      },
      "label": "string"
    }
  ]
}

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