PostHog vs LogRocket
Mar 15, 2023
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- How do PostHog and LogRocket differ?
- 1. PostHog does more than frontend monitoring
- 2. PostHog is open source and transparent
- 3. PostHog constantly ships new features
- PostHog and LogRocket feature comparison
- Product analytics
- Session replays
- Heatmaps and click tracking
- Tracking & SDKs
- Should you autocapture events?
- Library support
- PostHog library support
- Integrations and extensions
- Data pipelines
- Popular integrations
- Site apps
- Collaboration
- Compliance
- Frequently asked questions
- How much does LogRocket cost?
- How much does PostHog cost?
- Do LogRocket and PostHog offer free trials?
LogRocket is a frontend monitoring platform which, like PostHog, combines multiple tools into one platform. In this article we’ll explain some of the biggest similarities and differences between PostHog and LogRocket, but here’s the short version:
LogRocket focuses on helping frontend developers detect and solve issues. It offers tools such as session recording, analytics, and performance monitoring.
PostHog is an all-in-one platform that helps teams build better products. It includes many of the same tools as LogRocket, including session recording, analytics and performance monitoring — but also extends to feature flags, A/B testing and more.
In this article, we will:
- Compare PostHog and LogRocket’s core features
- Examine PostHog and LogRocket’s library support
- Discuss what integrations are available with other tools
- Explore other frequently asked questions about PostHog and LogRocket
How do PostHog and LogRocket differ?
1. PostHog does more than frontend monitoring
PostHog goes beyond frontend monitoring by augmenting product analytics and session recording with powerful product and data tools, such as feature flags, A/B testing, and SQL querying. While LogRocket’s focus on the frontend means it offers a few specialist features, PostHog offers greater value and is more widely useful for the majority of teams and organizations
2. PostHog is open source and transparent
PostHog is built with transparency at its core. Not only do we work in the open and give full access to our source code, we also enable others to build integrations or other services on top of PostHog, open their own PRs, or give feedback on our roadmap. PostHog's open app framework makes it easy to integrate internal tools, an advantage closed-source products like LogRocket can't offer.
3. PostHog constantly ships new features
At PostHog, we ship weirdly fast. We update our changelog with a recap of new features every week, and often there’s even more in beta testing. And that’s without counting all the apps and integrations submitted by our community! We work hard to keep PostHog on the cutting edge and we’re transparent about the ways we do that.
PostHog and LogRocket feature comparison
PostHog offers a much wider selection of tools than LogRocket, including several tools that are helpful to frontend developers — such as feature flags, and experimentation. PostHog is also entirely open source, meaning that it offers far greater transparency than LogRocket. You can even develop your own PostHog apps!
| LogRocket | PostHog | |
Product analytics Track events and conversion; analyze user behavior | ✔ | ✔ |
Session replay Watch real users use your product; diagnose bugs | ✔ | ✔ |
Feature flags Roll out features safely; toggle features for cohorts or individuals | ✖ | ✔ |
User surveys Ask users for qualitative feedback and gather responses | ✖ | ✔ |
Experiments Test changes and analyze impact | ✖ | ✔ |
Heatmaps Track where users click | ✔ | ✔ |
Event pipelines Push and pull data to enrich customer profiles | ✔ | ✔ |
Open source Build your own apps and contribute code | ✖ | ✔ |
Feature flags: PostHog offers robust, multivariate feature flags which support JSON payloads. This enables you to push real-time changes to your product without needing to redeploy. Visit our feature flag page for more information. LogRocket doesn’t have any in-built feature flag functions.
Experiments: PostHog offers multivariate experimentation, which enables you to test changes and discover statistically relevant insights. Visit the experimentation page for more information. LogRocket doesn’t have any in-built experimentation features.
Open source: PostHog is entirely open source, under a permissive MIT license. The biggest advantage for users is the ability to build on top of PostHog and to access the source code directly. Our team also works in the open. LogRocket is not an open source company, nor is the product available under an open source license.
Product analytics
While LogRocket contains some product analytics features, it isn’t primarily intended as an analytics platform and lacks many features that product managers and engineers may require. PostHog is a more capable product analytics platform, offering advanced features such as correlation analysis.
| LogRocket | PostHog | |
Graphs and trends Build custom insights and visualizations | ✔ | ✔ |
Dashboards Combine insights into shareable dashboards | ✔ | ✔ |
Funnels Understand conversion between events, pages | ✔ | ✔ |
Cohorts Combine users based on properties and events for group analysis | ✔ | ✔ |
User paths Track user flows and where they drop-off | ✔ | ✔ |
Retention Analyze user and revenue retention | ✔ | ✔ |
UTM tracking Track marketing campaigns with UTM tags | ✔ | ✔ |
Correlation analysis Suggested events and properties that lead to success or failure | ✖ | ✔ |
Group analytics Understand how organizations use your product | ✖ | ✔ |
Formulas Use custom formulas to calculate unique insights | ✖ | ✔ |
Query editor Write your own queries in SQL | ✖ | ✔ |
Correlation analysis: This feature enables you to automatically find correlated events or properties which affect the conversion rate of users within a funnel. LogRocket doesn’t offer any such automated correlation discovery, meaning users must search for correlating factors manually and without assistance.
Query editor: LogRocket doesn’t currently support any way for users to interrogate data directly, either through SQL or other, abstracted query language. PostHog also doesn’t offer SQL queries... but we’re actively working on it.
Further reading: How LogRocket compares to other PostHog alternatives
Session replays
LogRocket and PostHog both offer robust, full-featured session replay tools that outperform even dedicated tools, such as Hotjar. LogRocket’s session replay tool offers a handful of extra features, such as mobile recording, though PostHog is actively working on developing these.
| LogRocket | PostHog | |
Web app recordings Capture recordings from single-page apps | ✔ | ✔ |
Mobile app recordings Capture recordings in iOS and Android apps | ✔ | On the roadmap |
Identity detection Link recordings to user IDs | ✔ | ✔ |
Console logs Capture extra content from a users’ browser environment | ✔ | ✔ |
Playlists Sort recordings into static and dynamic playlists | ✔ | ✔ |
Performance monitoring Track network events within a session | ✔ | ✔ |
Privacy masking Censor personal information from playback | ✔ | ✔ |
Conditional recording Only capture the sessions you want | ✔ | ✔ |
Export recordings Take recordings in/out of the platform | ✔ | ✔ |
- Mobile app recordings: PostHog does not currently offer recordings for mobile apps, but it is something we’re actively working on. Check our roadmap for more info!
Heatmaps and click tracking
LogRocket’s heatmap and click tracking functionality exceeds PostHog’s and enables you to visualize more precisely how users interact with your site at the aggregate level. PostHog’s toolbar focuses on visualizing clicks, and enabling users to quickly track such events within product analytics.
| LogRocket | PostHog | |
Heatmaps Visualize cursor movements on a page | ✔ | ✖ |
Clickmaps Visualize where users click on a page | ✔ | ✔ |
Scrollmaps Visualize how far down a page users scroll | ✔ | ✖ |
Eyetracking Visualize precisely where users are looking on a page | ✖ | ✖ |
Toolbar: PostHog’s heatmap functionality (technically, clickmapping) is accessed via the toolbar. It enables you to visualize clicks as an overlay on a live page, but also enables you to quickly create events and actions which can be analyzed using PostHog’s analytics features.
Tracking & SDKs
Tl;dr: Both PostHog and LogRocket support a broad range of tracking options and libraries, and manual event instrumentation, as well as autocapture.
| LogRocket | PostHog | |
Event tracking Track manually instrumented events | ✔ | ✔ |
Autocapture Automatically track events without instrumentation | ✔ | ✔ |
Combined events Track related events as a single trackable action or behavior | ✔ | ✔ |
Reverse proxy available Send events from your own domain to capture more data | ✔ | ✔ |
Cross-domain tracking Track users across domains and sub-domains | ✔ | ✔ |
Server-side tracking Send events from your server | ✔ | ✔ |
Capture API Send events through an API | ✔ | ✔ |
Should you autocapture events?
LogRocket and PostHog both support manual instrumentation, as well as autocapture. Autocapture is much faster to setup, but some argue that it creates too much noise to be useful. We disagree, and it’s why PostHog gives you your first million events for free, every month — so you can capture events freely. It’s something we feel quite strongly about.
Library support
| LogRocket | PostHog | |
JavaScript | ✔ | ✔ |
React Native | ✔ | ✔ |
React | ✔ | ✔ |
Flutter | ✖ | ✔ |
iOS | ✔ | ✔ |
Android | ✔ | ✔ |
Ruby | ✖ | ✔ |
PostHog library support
PostHog supports a wide range of client and server libraries, but not all features are equally available across all of them. We recommend using PostHog's JavaScript snippet to enjoy all our features. See our client library documentation for more information.
Integrations and extensions
Both PostHog and LogRocket are capable of integrating with third-party tools in a variety of ways. This enables you to accomplish tasks such as exporting data to another platform, importing data for analysis, or enabling two-way communication between the tools.
PostHog offers more than 50 integrations and apps, while LogRocket offers slightly fewer.
As an open source software, PostHog welcomes contributions from the community. If an integration you need isn’t available, it’s possible to create it!
Data pipelines
| LogRocket | PostHog | |
Export API Export data via API | ✔ | ✔ |
Import API Import data via API | ✔ | ✔ |
Amazon Redshift Export data to Redshift | ✖ | ✔ |
Amazon S3 Export data to S3 bucket | ✖ | ✔ |
Azure Blob Storage Export data to Microsoft Azure | ✖ | ✔ |
Google Cloud Storage Export data to GCS | ✖ | ✔ |
Snowflake Export data to Snowflake database | ✖ | ✔ |
BigQuery Export data to Google BigQuery for analysis | ✖ | ✔ |
RudderStack Sync event and person data | ✖ | ✔ |
Airbyte Extract and load data to external platforms | ✖ | ✔ |
Want more? For a full list of PostHog’s available integrations, please check the app directory.
Popular integrations
Below, we've listed a few of the most popular integrations used across PostHog and LogRocket.
| LogRocket | PostHog | |
Hubspot Sync event and person data | ✖ | ✔ |
Salesforce Sync event and person data | ✔ | ✔ |
Zapier Export events for use in Zaps | ✖ | ✔ |
Stripe Sync customer and invoice data | ✖ | ✔ |
Intercom Extract and load data to external platforms | ✔ | ✔ |
Customer.io Sync data between platforms | ✖ | ✔ |
Sentry Ingest Sentry errors for analysis | ✔ | ✔ |
Segment Ingest events from Segment | ✔ | ✔ |
Want more? For a full list of PostHog’s available integrations, please check the app directory.
Site apps
PostHog’s extensions also include site apps, which enable you to easily add frontend components to your site — something that isn’t possible with LogRocket.
Some examples of PostHog’s site apps include:
User Notifications: Display a site banner to alert users about important information.
Schedule interviews: Target different types of users to receive Calendly notification, so you can arrange feedback calls.
In-app prompts: Display in-app prompts which ask for written feedback, or bug reports.
Raining Pineapples: Sometimes you just want it to rain Pineapples. You’re welcome.
Collaboration
PostHog provides multiple ways for users to share information with their teams, or to set up notifications for important events. Depending on the collaboration tools you use already, it may even be possible to integrate with PostHog directly.
LogRocket does not offer as many ways to share information with external parties, though does still provide details role-based permissioning for users across multiple projects.
| LogRocket | PostHog | |
User permissions Control user roles and levels of access | ✔ | ✔ |
Public dashboards Make dashboards available without login | ✖ | ✔ |
Dashboard subscriptions Receive regular alerts about new data | ✖ | ✔ |
Embeddable dashboards Embed dashboards in other pages | ✖ | ✔ |
Slack Receive notifications about new data | ✔ | ✔ |
Discord Receive notifications about new data | ✖ | ✔ |
Microsoft Teams Receive notifications about new data | ✖ | ✔ |
Compliance
Regulatory compliance can be make-or-break for many teams, especially those operating in fields such as healthcare or the financial sector. Luckily, LogRocket and PostHog both offer a variety of ways to comply with such regulations.
| LogRocket | PostHog | |
GDPR ready | ✔ | ✔ |
Data anonymization | ✔ | ✔ |
Cookie-less tracking option | ✖ | ✔ |
SOC 2 certified | ✔ | ✔ |
SAML/SSO available | ✔ | ✔ |
2FA available | ✔ | ✔ |
Frequently asked questions
- How much does LogRocket cost?
- How much does PostHog cost?
- Do LogRocket and PostHog offer free trials?
Got another question? You can ask the PostHog team anything you want!
How much does LogRocket cost?
LogRocket has a complex pricing structure which isn’t fully transparent. Although it offers a free trial, this is limited to only 1,000 sessions per month. Beyond this, subsequent product tiers begin at $99 USD per month, depending on usage. This version does not include access to many features, such as product analytics.
More feature-rich product tiers begin at $550 USD per month, but increase depending on how many session are captured — and the per session cost is not clear. Pricing for the full version of LogRocket is not publicly available.
How much does PostHog cost?
PostHog has transparent pricing based on usage. It’s free to get started and completely free for the first 1 million events and 15,000 sessions captured every month.
After this free monthly allowance you'll pay $0.00031/event and $0.005/recording, and PostHog charges progressively less the more you use. Volume, non-profit and startup discounts are available upon request, and we recommend trying our pricing calculator to estimate your pricing.
Do LogRocket and PostHog offer free trials?
LogRocket offers a free version of its basic product, which is limited to only 1,000 session captures per month. 14-day free trials are also available for other product tiers, after which users must pay to continue usage.
With PostHog, it’s free to get started and all users get their first 1 million events and 15,000 sessions for free, every month. Billing limits can be used to keep usage beneath this allowance, enabling you to use PostHog for free indefinitely.
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