PostHog Sidecar

A Chrome extension that shows a user's data from PostHog in any SaaS tool

  • More context for debugging get to session recordings, feature flags and events from any other SaaS product.
  • Context for support teams know if users are paying customers, which features they use and product actions they've taken.
  • User data in any tool with zero integration needed.

How to install

  1. Join our community chat, and join the #team-website-and-docs channel - the zip file is pinned in the channel.
  2. Download the zip file and unzip it.
  3. Open the extensions menu in Chrome, switch to developer mode, then choose load unpacked extension and upload it.
  4. Chrome's extension store can be buggy - just restart after you enable developer mode if you have any issues.

How to use

  1. Once Sidecar is installed, go to your CRM / customer support tool or anywhere you might find a customers's name.
  2. The Sidecar slide out will appear. Select where your PostHog instance exists (if you use cloud, you're probably on 'PostHog US')
  3. Insert a personal API key by going to https://app.posthog.com/me/settings (or https://example.com/me/settings if you self host)
  4. If you have an ad-blocker enabled, you may need to disable this before hitting 'Next'.
  5. Now you can select which fields you display on the page. These can be either person or group properties.
  6. If you now search, Sidecar will search your PostHog data by email or by distinct ID. It will default search the string that is selected before you right click, but you can edit the search manually afterwards.
  7. Happy dealing with customers, with much more context.

I found a bug, have feedback, or want to contribute

For feedback, please join our community chat, and post it in the #team-website-and-docs channel.

For bugs, create an issue in the Sidecar repo

To contribute code, we're grateful for pull requests in the sidecar repo. To make sure we can merge your work, we recommend talking about it with us in the Slack channel. We give merch for cool features.

Feature ideas

  • Inserting data into a page automatically, so there's no need to right click
  • Inserting react components from PostHog into a page automatically
  • Editable product-specific templates
  • Community product-specific templates
  • Inserting react components into the toolbar automatically
  • Ability to update a user's data in the toolbar, and pushing it back into PostHog
  • Ability to add customer user fields in the toolbar, and pushing it back into PostHog
  • Ability to scrape a page and automatically update a user's profile