Somebody got a working PostHog Template?

[iron glacier]

The current template in the marketplace is not deploying: https://railway.app/template/16rDub

[ancient marsh]

Project ID: N/A

[hoary steeple]

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[iron glacier]

N/A

[cosmic lintel]

can you be more specific when you say "not deploying"?

[iron glacier]

The Postgres server is starting but nothing is happening with the PostHog repo.
The PostHog Service seems to be connected with my GitHub repo and I can configure it, but there is no deployment for PostHog that is starting or triggered at all. The deployments section just stays empty and there is no history of anything happening.

I'm not sure if there were some changes in this https://github.com/PostHog/posthog repo that made might have broken the template.

[iron glacier]

Just tried it out again ...

[cosmic lintel]

did the repo get forked into your own github account?

[iron glacier]

@cosmic lintel yes, the repo gets forked into my github account.

[cosmic lintel]

#🛂｜readme #5

go ahead and remove the repo from your service and add it back

[iron glacier]

sorry for the mention

ok, thank will try that

[iron glacier]

Ok, thank you, it is deploying now, but the template seems to be missing some crucial services like Redis and Clickhouse - so there is no way that the PostHog template could work for anybody on Railway.

I've added those services but I seem to be stuck because of some migration step. Probably some misconfiguration on my side. I'm not sure if I'll have the time to figure this out, but I'll share it if I do.

[cosmic lintel]

i agree the template does seem to be lacking the needed surrounding infra

[old mural]

hey OP, did you mange to make it work? I'm struggling with it myself

[iron glacier]

hey beuz, sorry wasn

t able to get time to work on this

[old mural]

thanks anyway

[terse inlet]

Same issue.. @cosmic lintel

[hallow sinew]

#🛂｜readme rule 5. Please don't tag the team or conductors. I'll give the template a look today and see if I can get the creator to fix it, or I'll build up a new one

[crystal frost]

Template is not deploying for me either, would love to see this working!

[jagged wadi]

Everything template would require and things PostHog is running on 😬

https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/developing-locally

The app itself is made up of 4 components that run simultaneously:

Django server
Celery worker (handles execution of background tasks)
Node.js plugin server (handles event ingestion and apps/plugins)
React frontend built with Node.js
These components rely on a few external services:

ClickHouse – for storing big data (events, persons – analytics queries)
Kafka – for queuing events for ingestion
MinIO – for storing files (session recordings, file exports)
PostgreSQL – for storing ordinary data (users, projects, saved insights)
Redis – for caching and inter-service communication
Zookeeper – for coordinating Kafka and ClickHouse clusters

[old mural]

I managed to deploy all of those once but I somehow messed up zookeeper, kafka and clickhouse integration or something like that
it was really hard for me to even get there tho as a docker newbie

then I realized what the cost of hosting this would be and gave up xD

[jagged wadi]

Yeah even hosting for log and error tracing just not worth it compared to integrating free plan

For small apps free is plenty and if you have paid users paying for it won’t be an issue