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1.392.0

Minor Changes

• #3895 ce528ed Thanks @turnipdabeets! - Console log auto-capture (logs: { captureConsoleLogs: true }) now flows through the same pipeline as posthog.captureLog(), posthog.logger.*, and PostHog's other SDKs, instead of OpenTelemetry. As a result:

  • the bundled OpenTelemetry dependencies are removed, shrinking the lazily-loaded logs chunk
  • auto-captured console logs now run through logs.beforeSend (the same hook as captureLog/logger.*), so you can redact or drop sensitive console output before it's sent. To treat console logs differently from manual logs, branch on the record's log.source attribute: auto-captured console logs set it to console.<method> (e.g. console.error), while manual captureLog/logger.* logs leave it unset
  • console logs now link to the person's profile: they carry the person id as posthogDistinctId, the attribute PostHog uses to associate logs with a person (docs). The old path used distinct_id, which isn't used for person linking by default, so console logs previously didn't appear on person profiles unless you'd configured a custom key.

  Console logs keep their posthog-browser-logs service.name, their console instrumentation scope, and their log.source: console.<level> attribute.

  As part of moving onto the shared pipeline, console records now use PostHog's standard log field names — the same ones programmatic web logs and other SDKs use, and the ones the Logs UI surfaces. For the fields below the values are unchanged — only the attribute names/locations differ:

  • distinct_id → posthogDistinctId (record attribute)
  • location.href → url.full (record attribute; same value — the page URL)
  • session.id (resource attribute) → sessionId (record attribute) — renamed and moved
  • host and window.id move from resource attributes to record attributes (names unchanged)
  • records also now carry the standard SDK context shared by other logs, including feature_flags

  For most projects this needs no action — these are already the canonical log fields. The only thing to update is a saved Logs query or dashboard built specifically on an old console attribute name, for example:

  • attributes.distinct_id → attributes.posthogDistinctId
  • attributes.location.href → attributes.url.full
  • resource.attributes.session.id → attributes.sessionId
  • resource.attributes.host / resource.attributes.window.id → attributes.host / attributes.window.id (2026-06-22)

Patch Changes

• Updated dependencies [ce528ed]:
  • @posthog/core@1.35.4