Lineage for Insights, Dashboards, and Notebooks
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Description
Feature request
Is your feature request related to a problem?
There is a lack of visibility of how changes in on component will effect other components.
Describe the solution you'd like
The Lineage feature for Models (Views) is amazing. I would love to see a similar feature come to Insights, Dashboards, and Notebooks. For Insights, I would love to see downstream dependencies as well as upstream dependencies like requested for Views in #66069.
Ideally, this would show nested dependencies in both directions.
Describe alternatives you've considered
I am currently using the query below to see downstream dependencies for Insights:
-- Update search_term with Insight name
WITH
'EXAMPLE' as search_term,
target_insight AS (
SELECT i.id, i.short_id, i.name
FROM system.insights i
WHERE i.name ILIKE concat('%', search_term, '%')
AND i.deleted = 0
)
-- Dashboards containing the insight
SELECT
'Dashboard' AS container_type,
d.name AS container_name,
toString(d.id) AS container_id,
i.short_id AS insight_short_id,
i.name AS insight_name
FROM target_insight i
JOIN (SELECT * FROM system.dashboard_tiles WHERE deleted = 0) dt ON dt.insight_id = i.id
JOIN (SELECT * FROM system.dashboards WHERE deleted = 0) d ON d.id = dt.dashboard_id
UNION ALL
-- Notebooks containing the insight (matched by short_id in content JSON)
SELECT
'Notebook' AS container_type,
n.title AS container_name,
n.short_id AS container_id,
i.short_id AS insight_short_id,
i.name AS insight_name
FROM target_insight i
CROSS JOIN system.notebooks n
WHERE toString(n.content) LIKE concat('%', i.short_id, '%')
AND n.deleted = 0
ORDER BY container_type, container_name
LIMIT 100
Debug info
- [ ] PostHog Cloud, Debug information: [please copy/paste from https://us.posthog.com/settings/project-details#variables]
- [ ] PostHog Hobby self-hosted with `docker compose`, version/commit: [please provide]
- [ ] PostHog self-hosted with Kubernetes (deprecated, see [`Sunsetting Kubernetes support`](https://posthog.com/blog/sunsetting-helm-support-posthog)), version/commit: [please provide]
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by studying the existing lineage feature for Models (Views) and the upstream-dependencies request in #66069; this issue names no files or tests. Define how lineage should work for Insights, Dashboards, and Notebooks, including nested upstream and downstream dependencies, then verify the resulting relationships in both directions.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- sql
- Domain
- analytics
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100