Filtering and measuring bot traffic

PostHog classifies every request by user agent so you can tell humans apart from bots, crawlers, and AI agents anywhere HogQL runs — the SQL editor, insights, trends, and Web analytics breakdowns. This skill teaches you (the agent) how to use that classification to:

• exclude bots so analytics reflect human traffic only
• measure how much traffic is automated, and which bots / operators are responsible
• separate AI-agent traffic (worth measuring) from noise (worth dropping)
• pick the right surface — virtual properties for the insight builder, functions for raw SQL

For real-time ("right now", last 30 min) bot questions and the Live tab tiles, use the exploring-live-traffic skill instead. This skill is for historical windows, saved insights, dashboards, and filtering.

When to use this skill

Use it when the user wants to: