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Skill 103 · Querying PostHog Data
Subchapter 103.64
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The team taxonomy query automatically excludes events that are not useful for analytics.
These are events marked as system or ignored_in_assistant in PostHog’s core taxonomy definitions.
Event | Reason
$pageleave | Confuses LLMs — use instead
| Only useful with autocapture-specific filters
| Internal heatmap data, doesn’t contribute to event counts
| Clipboard capture, too niche
| Person property setting event, not an analytics event
| Analytics opt-in event, irrelevant for product analytics
| Feature flag evaluation, not a user action
| posthog-js/react specific, niche
| posthog-js/react specific, niche
| Internal SDK metrics
| Identity management event
| Identity management event
| Group identification event
$pageview$autocapture$$heatmap$copy_autocapture$set$opt_in$feature_flag_called$feature_view$feature_interaction$capture_metrics$create_alias$merge_dangerously$groupidentifyThese events are filtered at the SQL level using a NOT IN clause, so they don’t consume pagination slots.