Five fixes to the PostHog event stream, from an audit of what we actually collect versus what's flowing in. Each one is test-first.
## What changed
**Silenced the `$opt_in` noise.** `initAnalytics` called `opt_in_capturing()` on every page load to clear a stale opt-out flag, and posthog-js emits an `$opt_in` event on every call. That was 10k+ events a month (up to 55 per user) carrying no signal: analytics is on by default with an admin opt-out, so there is no per-user consent to record. Both call sites now pass `captureEventName: false`.
**Split the onboarding survey out of `feedback_submitted`.** The onboarding usage survey rode the same event as real feedback, so about 93% of "feedback" was actually onboarding profiling. It now emits `onboarding_survey_submitted`, so feedback metrics mean feedback again.
**Set `pipeline_executed.file_count`.** It was declared in the properties interface but never populated. A pure `pipelineExecutedProps` helper now derives it (batch size for a batch run, else 1) and is shared by the success and failure paths, which also drops a duplicated payload.
**Tracked OIDC login failures.** All six OIDC callback failure branches bumped the Prometheus counter and wrote an audit log but never emitted `auth_login_failed`. A `recordOidcFailure` helper mirrors the password path.
**Added `TELEMETRY.md`.** A contributor-facing event dictionary: every event, its properties, where it fires, and the privacy invariants, with the allowlists as source of truth. A drift test fails if any `ANALYTICS_EVENTS` value goes undocumented.
I left the published telemetry guide (`apps/docs/guide/telemetry.md`) alone. It is high-level and still accurate, and editing it would pull in the 21-locale stale-gate for no gain.
## Verification
- Unit (63 tests): `analytics-events`, `telemetry-doc-drift`, `api/analytics`, `web/analytics`, `worker.behavior`
- Integration (41 tests): `oidc-auth`, `feedback`
- Full typecheck across all 9 workspaces
- Biome clean on the changed files
All green locally.
Comprehensive telemetry quality improvements across Sentry and PostHog, grounded in an audit of the live data plus current best-practice research.
Sentry: job_id/instance_id tags, operational fingerprinting, PII-safe settings context on bug events, web tag population + extension-noise filtering, an early-crash buffer, http status/method kept on breadcrumbs, and a gated-off-by-default performance-tracing re-enable (tracesSampler that zeroes db/redis/queue-poll root spans + drops the Redis integration) with worker job spans and canonical-host cron monitors.
PostHog: history_change SPA pageviews, instance_id super property for fleet rollups, enriched tool_used (formats, byte sizes, is_batch, execution_hint, real error_kind taxonomy), the previously-dead result_saved/batch_processed/ai_bundle_prompted events fired, search click-through, editor + Automate authoring + auth instrumentation, a before_send PII boundary, and minimal opt-in landing-site pageviews.
Postgres auth (28xxx), permission (42501), resource (class 53), and operator-intervention (class 57) failures now classify as operational via a cause-chain walk, not bug. pg query bugs (e.g. 42601) stay bugs.
Add a once-per-boot instance_started event (arch, os, deploy_mode,
gpu_present) so the fleet architecture mix is measurable. It reuses the
existing per-instance instance_id and is exempt from the volume sample
rate, since a census that fires once per boot must not be thinned.
Restore useful capture depth now that the sponsored plan removes the
quota pressure behind the earlier hardening:
- PostHog sample rate 0.1 to 1.0 (full analytics when enabled); the
property allowlist still blocks file data.
- Sentry per-instance ceiling 20 to 500/hr, breadcrumb trail restored
(sanitized: urls/paths redacted, data payloads dropped), full stack
paths kept; local vars, request bodies, and PII still dropped. Both
api and web.
Honor ANALYTICS_ENABLED=false as an opt-out alias: it was documented on
the Docker Hub README but never wired in 2.x, so anyone who set it was
still tracked.
All capture stays behind the analytics opt-out gate.
Follow-ups to the v2.1.0 Sentry telemetry overhaul, found by reviewing live release:2.1.0 events:
- error_code tag was empty because reportError read only the top-level err.code; add extractErrorCode() to walk the cause chain (pg SQLSTATE, node E-code, else first short code).
- InputValidationError from a tool's processV2 in the worker was logged as error_class=bug; classify it as expected for any source. Worker-side ZodError stays a bug (schema drift).
- AI dispatcher timeouts rejected with a bare Error, which the sanitizer scrubbed to a message-less "Error: Error"; reject with an operational SafeError (code "timeout") at both timeout sites.
Each fix written failing-test-first; affected and adjacent unit suites green plus full CI (integration + e2e).
Removes Sentry tracing entirely (BullMQ idle polling burned 4.8M transactions in 2 days at the baked 0.1 rate), decouples PostHog sampling, and replaces the type-only error scrub with a vetted-field sanitizer plus SafeError/ToolInputError contracts. One classified capture path with per-signature throttles and a per-process ceiling makes storms impossible (NODE-1E was 4,541 events from one 30s loop). Browser errors move to a dedicated web Sentry project with their own source maps. Adds the SNAPOTTER_TELEMETRY runtime kill switch and silences test fleets.
Crash fixes: remote 204/304 SSRF process kill (NODE-20), conversion-preset boot crash loop (NODE-21), Redis version preflight + unhandled subscribe rejection (NODE-1T), Sign PDF on plain-http origins (NODE-1K/1M), wavesurfer/pdf.js teardown rejections (NODE-1P/1N), bundle-import ZlibError to 400 (NODE-1Z), chart-maker input errors declassified (NODE-1H/1J), asset requests skip the session DB lookup (NODE-1D).
Adds a prominent Keep it free sponsor button to the top nav, linking to https://github.com/sponsors/snapotter-hq. Solid orange pill on desktop (left of the avatar), orange heart icon on mobile. Opens in a new tab with rel=noopener noreferrer, so no referrer or user data leaks, and it adds no passive network activity (offline-mode compatible). Fires an opt-in, property-less sponsor_clicked analytics event. Adds sidebar.sponsor and a11y.sponsorLink across all 21 locales.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DnYLLA5z4Uf1GDeEPENVgr
Lands five integrated branches: pipeline templates (#355), analytics opt-out (#354), 83 conversion presets bringing the catalog to 240 tools (#356), self-hosted positioning (#353), and e2e modernization (#351).
Integration fixes: aligned stale web analytics tests with the opt-out/allow-list model, closed 3 CodeQL incomplete-sanitization alerts in the i18n generator, resolved settings/index/docs/format-matrix conflicts, and corrected tool counts to 240.
- Fix resize 20% failure rate: add Zod refine requiring at least one
dimension, enforce integer/max constraints, clamp percentage scaling
to minimum 1px, and guard against missing metadata in withoutEnlargement
- Fix PostHog init race condition: move consent check before async import
so frontend events (search, pageview) are no longer silently dropped
- Fix identify() passing nested $set/$set_once wrappers instead of flat
properties, so version person property now appears on PostHog profiles
- Add error_code and error_message to failed tool_used analytics events
for debugging tool failures from PostHog
