generating-clickhouse-query-performance-reports
Generating ClickHouse query performance reports
This skill is the methodology for investigating slow ClickHouse queries and writing up a
performance report. It pairs with query-clickhouse-via-metabase,
which is the mechanism (SSO-gated auth and hogli metabase:query). Run every query in this skill
through that one.
Reports themselves are not public. When it exists, the private PostHog/query-performance-analysis repo
holds the historical reports and example query IDs; this repo holds only the tooling and methodology.
That repo is usually checked out as a sibling folder to the posthog checkout (e.g.
../query-performance-analysis relative to the repo root, or alongside it under the same parent
directory). Look for a sibling directory named query-performance-analysis containing an analysis/
folder of dated reports. If you find it, add the new report there as a new markdown file under
analysis/, named <YYYY-MM-DD>-<topic>.md (match the existing naming, e.g.
2026-05-27-slow-queries-14d.md).