PostHog is an open-source platform for product analytics. It helps you capture meaningful data about user behavior on your website or app, and provides tools to analyze and visualize that data. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install PostHog on Ubuntu Server.
Before starting with the installation process, you need to ensure that you have the following:
PostHog requires Docker to be installed on your system. You can use the following command to install Docker on your Ubuntu Server:
sudo apt install docker.io
Once Docker is installed, you can check its version by running the following command:
docker --version
To install PostHog, you can use the docker-compose file provided by PostHog. You can download the latest docker-compose file from the PostHog GitHub repository using the following command:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/posthog/posthog/master/docker-compose.yml > docker-compose.yml
Once the docker-compose file is downloaded, you can start the PostHog installation using the following command:
sudo docker-compose up -d
This will start the PostHog installation process, and it may take a few minutes to complete.
Once the installation is complete, you can access PostHog by visiting the following URL in your web browser:
http://YOUR_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS:8000
Replace "YOUR_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS" with the IP address of your Ubuntu Server.
You should now see the PostHog login page. You can create a new account or sign in with your existing account to start using PostHog.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install PostHog on Ubuntu Server Latest. Once you have installed PostHog, you can capture user behavior data, analyze it, and make informed decisions to improve your product.
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