PostHog Node.js
PostHog product analytics SDK for Node.js and server-side tracking.
Used in agent projects
34
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in logging, monitoring and analytics
#23 of 29
by use in those projects
Downloads
13.3M
npm, last 7 days, posthog-node
GitHub stars
633
last push Oct 10, 2026
How PostHog Node.js is used
PostHog Node.js is a dependency in 34 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #23 of 29 in logging, monitoring and analytics. The most used alternative there is Vercel Analytics. Projects that use it most often also use Zod (76.5%), PostHog JS (76.5%), Vitest (67.6%).
Often used with PostHog Node.js
| Zod | 76.5% of PostHog Node.js projects · 4.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| PostHog JS | 76.5% of PostHog Node.js projects · 131.2× more than average |
| Vitest | 67.6% of PostHog Node.js projects · 5.5× more than average |
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 61.8% of PostHog Node.js projects · 7.0× more than average |
| Class Variance Authority | 55.9% of PostHog Node.js projects · 4.0× more than average |
| clsx | 61.8% of PostHog Node.js projects · 3.5× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 58.8% of PostHog Node.js projects · 3.5× more than average |
| jsdom | 50.0% of PostHog Node.js projects · 9.3× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list PostHog Node.js as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install posthog-node |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (18), TypeScript / JavaScript (15), Python (1) |
| Example projects | Ranork/remnus-app, amirardalan/portfolio, Vectreal/vectreal-platform, DiegoFleitas/letterboxd-movie-justwatch, NathanAB/statuslin.es |
Alternatives to PostHog Node.js
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel Analytics npm Real-time web analytics SDK for tracking traffic and user behavior. |
422 (3.3%) | 8.3M | 517 | MIT |
| pino-pretty npm Pretty-printer for Pino JSON logs to make terminal output human-readable. |
223 (1.8%) | 24.6M | 1,706 | MIT |
| Web Vitals npm Measure Core Web Vitals and other key performance metrics in JavaScript. |
222 (1.7%) | 48.7M | 8,640 | Apache-2.0 |
| Vercel Speed Insights npm Measure web performance metrics and get recommendations for improvement. |
167 (1.3%) | 5.6M | 116 | Apache-2.0 |
| psutil pypi Cross-platform library for retrieving process and system monitoring information. |
144 (1.1%) | 74.7M | 11.3K | BSD-3-Clause |
| Pino npm Ultra-fast JSON logger for Node.js with minimal overhead. |
129 (1.0%) | 53.3M | 18.2K | MIT |
| Sentry for Next.js npm Official Sentry SDK for error tracking and performance monitoring in Next.js apps. |
119 (0.9%) | 11.7M | 8,756 | MIT |
| Loguru pypi Simplified Python logging library with intuitive API and structured logging. |
108 (0.9%) | 16.4M | 24.1K | — |