exploring-apm-traces
exploring-apm-traces is the official agent skill of PostHog published by posthog, listed under analytics & experiments. It lives in the PostHog/skills repository, which has 75 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-10-22.
This tool investigates distributed application performance by analyzing PostHog APM (OpenTelemetry span) data via MCP. It requires credentials for accessing PostHog APM data.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads PostHog/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add PostHog/skills
What it connects to
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Maintenance
Investigates distributed application performance using PostHog APM (OpenTelemetry span) data via MCP. Use when the user asks about service traces, slow HTTP/database spans, error spans, error-rate trends or spikes, latency distributions, trace IDs, or span attributes — not AI observability traces or product logs. Uses posthog:apm-service-health, posthog:query-apm-spans, posthog:apm-trace-get, posthog:apm-spans-sparkline, posthog:apm-services-list, posthog:apm-attributes-list, and posthog:apm-attribute-values-list.
exploring-apm-traces compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| exploring-apm-traces (this page) | posthog | Investigates distributed application performance using PostHog APM (OpenTelemetry span) data via MCP. Use whe… | 75 | 2026-10-25 |
| account-handover(same repository) | posthog | Draft structured handover notes for transitioning a PostHog account from one TAM or CSM to another. Use this… | 75 | 2026-10-25 |
| adding-warehouse-person-properties(same repository) | posthog | Sync columns from a synced data warehouse table onto PostHog person or group properties, so warehouse data be… | 75 | 2026-10-25 |
| analyzing-experiment-session-replays(same repository) | posthog | Analyze session replay patterns across experiment variants to understand user behavior differences. Use when… | 75 | 2026-10-25 |
| analyzing-task-runs(same repository) | posthog | Split a completed PostHog task run into activity records — what the agent tried, whether it worked, what bloc… | 75 | 2026-10-25 |
| assessing-heatmaps(same repository) | posthog | Assesses what a page's heatmap is telling you and recommends concrete changes. Pulls click / rageclick / scro… | 75 | 2026-10-25 |
| auditing-endpoints(same repository) | posthog | Audit every endpoint in a PostHog project for staleness, failed materialisations, and unused materialised ver… | 75 | 2026-10-25 |
Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about exploring-apm-traces
- What does exploring-apm-traces do?
- This tool investigates distributed application performance by analyzing PostHog APM (OpenTelemetry span) data via MCP. It requires credentials for accessing PostHog APM data.
- How do I install exploring-apm-traces?
- Run npx skills add PostHog/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes exploring-apm-traces?
- posthog. It is named as the official skill of PostHog.
- Is exploring-apm-traces maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 75 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-25. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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