Suggesting data imports

This skill helps identify when data the user needs lives outside PostHog and guides them toward importing it via the data warehouse. The key insight is recognizing the gap — then connecting it to the right source type.

What PostHog collects natively

PostHog collects product analytics events, persons, sessions, and groups via its SDKs. Additional products are available but must be enabled: session replay, feature flags, experiments, surveys, web analytics, error tracking, LLM analytics, conversations, logs, revenue analytics, workflows, CDP destinations, and batch exports. PostHog does not collect external business data like payments, subscriptions, CRM records, support tickets from other systems, or production database tables — that data must be imported via the data warehouse.

When to use this skill

• A HogQL query fails because a table doesn't exist
• The user asks about data from an external system (Stripe, Hubspot, Salesforce, etc.)
• The user wants to correlate PostHog analytics with business data (revenue, support tickets, CRM records, etc)
• The user asks "how do I get my X data into PostHog?"
• Analysis requires joining PostHog events with external data
• The user asks about exporting PostHog data for comparison elsewhere (in a google sheet, external warehouse, etc)

Workflow