Connect Kafka and
PostHog with AI

Stream event data from Kafka directly into PostHog for real-time product analytics. Stop building and maintaining custom ETL pipelines, manually mapping event schemas, or writing transformation scripts to sync behavioral data between your streaming platform and analytics tool.

No code required
Live in minutes
SOC 2 Type II

What you can automate today

Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.

Stream real-time product events from Kafka topics to PostHog analytics

Automatically consume events from designated Kafka topics and send them to PostHog with proper event formatting and user identification. Redbird handles schema mapping, batching, and retry logic so your product analytics stay current without custom consumer code.

Enrich Kafka clickstream data with PostHog user properties before ingestion

Pull user attributes, cohort memberships, and feature flag states from PostHog and append them to raw clickstream events in Kafka. Create enriched event streams that combine behavioral data with product context for downstream analytics and ML pipelines.

Trigger PostHog feature flags based on Kafka event patterns

Monitor Kafka topics for specific event sequences or threshold conditions and automatically update PostHog feature flags. Enable dynamic feature rollouts based on real-time system behavior, user activity spikes, or operational metrics flowing through your event streams.

Archive PostHog session recordings metadata to Kafka for long-term storage

Export session recording events, metadata, and insights from PostHog into Kafka topics for durable storage and downstream processing. Build compliance workflows, feed data lakes, or power custom retention analysis without relying solely on PostHog's storage.

Alert teams when Kafka consumer lag impacts PostHog event freshness

Monitor consumer group lag and processing delays in your Kafka-to-PostHog pipeline. Automatically notify engineering teams via PostHog annotations or external channels when event delivery falls behind, ensuring analytics accuracy and timely insights.

Generate weekly product insights reports from Kafka events and PostHog analysis

Query both Kafka topics for raw event volumes and PostHog for conversion metrics, then compile automated reports comparing stream health with user behavior trends. Surface discrepancies, identify data quality issues, and track end-to-end analytics pipeline performance.

Live in four steps

No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Kafka and PostHog with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.

02

Describe what you want

Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.

03

Review and activate

Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.

04

Let it run — and iterate

Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.

Built for data-driven teams

Redbird understands both Kafka's event streaming architecture and PostHog's product analytics data model, so you can connect real-time data pipelines to behavioral insights without custom integration code.

AI that speaks Kafka schemas and PostHog events

Redbird automatically maps Avro, JSON, and Protobuf schemas from Kafka topics to PostHog's event format with proper user identification, properties, and timestamps. The AI understands consumer groups, partition strategies, offset management, and PostHog's distinct_id requirements. It handles schema evolution, type conversions, and nested property flattening so events flow cleanly into funnels, cohorts, and session recordings without transformation scripts.

Schema registry integration
Event property mapping
Consumer offset tracking
Batch optimization
10×

faster than building custom Kafka consumers and PostHog ingestion logic

No Kafka Connect configurations, schema mapping code, or event transformation scripts required

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Kafka and PostHog simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.

Trigger-based alerts

Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either Kafka or PostHog.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.

Bidirectional sync

Push data from Kafka into PostHog, or from PostHog back into Kafka. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.

Full audit trail

Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.

Triggers & actions for every team

Start automations from any event in Kafka or PostHog and take action across your entire data stack.

Kafka
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

New message in topic

Fires when a new event arrives in a specified Kafka topic or partition.

Trigger

Consumer group lag threshold exceeded

Triggers when consumer group lag surpasses a defined threshold for monitoring pipelines.

Trigger

Schema registry update detected

Fires when a new schema version is registered or updated in the schema registry.

Action

Produce message to topic

Write new events or enriched data to a specified Kafka topic with proper serialization.

Action

Create new topic

Provision a new Kafka topic with specified partitions, replication factor, and configurations.

Action

Update consumer group offset

Reset or adjust consumer group offsets for replay, skip, or recovery scenarios.

PostHog
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

New event tracked

Fires when a specific event type is captured in PostHog with matching properties or user attributes.

Trigger

User enters cohort

Triggers when a user meets criteria to join a defined behavioral or demographic cohort.

Trigger

Feature flag state changed

Fires when a feature flag is toggled on, off, or updated for users or groups.

Action

Create or update person

Add new user profiles or update existing person properties and metadata in PostHog.

Action

Send custom event

Track product events programmatically with custom properties, timestamps, and user identification.

Action

Update feature flag value

Enable, disable, or modify feature flag states and rollout percentages based on external conditions.

Kafka
+
PostHog

Ready to connect your stack?

Sync Kafka event streams with PostHog product analytics automatically. Stop writing custom consumers and transformation code—let Redbird handle your real-time data pipeline.

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