Feature Flag Rollout Status, PostHog

Feature Flag Rollout Status for PostHog stores. Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre. How to read it, why it matters, and how to act on it.

Metrics type: Key Metrics • Category: Analytics

At a glance

Feature Flag Rollout Status is a feature-flags table tracked from PostHog data. It lists each active flag with its current rollout percentage, so you can see at a glance which flags are at 100%, which are mid-rollout, and which are stuck partway. This is a PostHog-distinctive view: it turns the flag estate into a board you can govern, catching flags that were meant to ramp gradually but quietly sit at a fixed percentage forever.

What it counts	Each active feature flag and its current rollout percentage.
Sample type	Backend API data from PostHog feature-flag definitions, refreshed on the standard data refresh.
Why it matters	Flags stuck mid-rollout, or fully on when they should be gradual, change who sees what on your storefront. This table makes the whole rollout posture visible in one place.
Reading the value	Scan for flags far from 0% or 100%. A flag parked at, say, 50% for weeks usually means a rollout was forgotten.
Currency	percent
Time window	RT
Alert trigger	-
Sentiment key	ph_feature_flag_rollout
Roles	owner, marketing

Calculation

Calculated automatically from your PostHog data. See the At a glance summary above for what the metric tracks and the worked example below for a typical reading.

Worked example

A representative reading of Feature Flag Rollout Status for a typical merchant on PostHog. Suppose the table shows new-checkout at 25%, pdp-redesign at 100%, and free-shipping-banner at 10%. The new-checkout flag was meant to ramp to 100% over two weeks but has sat at 25% since 04 Apr 26, which means three quarters of shoppers never saw the new flow. The table surfaces that stall instantly. Cross-reference Stale Feature Flags to find the ones at 100% that can now be retired. For deeper investigation, use Vortex Mind to trace upstream causes; for natural-language exploration, ask Ask Viq.

Sibling cards merchants should reference together

Card	Why merchants reach for it
ph_active_feature_flags	Feature Flags sibling: how many flags are live.
ph_stale_feature_flags	Feature Flags sibling: flags ready to retire.
ph_funnel_conversion	Funnels sibling: did a rollout move conversion.
ph_dau	Executive sibling: the audience a rollout reaches.
ph_health_score	Executive sibling: overall tracking health.

Reconciling against the vendor’s own dashboard

Where to look in PostHog’s own dashboard:

Open the Feature Flags list in PostHog. Each flag shows its release condition and rollout percentage. The percentages there should match this table. Note that a flag can target by percentage of users or by property cohort, and a cohort-targeted flag shows differently from a simple percentage rollout.

Why the Vortex IQ value may legitimately differ:

Reason	Direction	What to do
Cohort targeting. A flag released to a cohort, not a percentage, has no single rollout number.	Variable	Inspect the release condition in PostHog.
Multivariate flags. Flags with multiple variants split the percentage across variants.	Variable	Check the variant distribution.
Recent edit. A rollout changed minutes ago may not have refreshed.	Marginal	Force a manual refresh.

Cross-connector reconciliation: complement with sibling cards in the same category for the full diagnostic picture. For divergence investigations, use Vortex Mind.

Known limitations / merchant FAQs

Q: How often does Feature Flag Rollout Status update? The card refreshes on the standard data refresh (typically every 30-60 minutes for live integrations). For real-time signals, force a manual refresh from the dashboard.

Q: A flag shows 100% but only some users see the feature. Why? The flag may also carry a property or cohort condition on top of the percentage, so 100% applies only within the targeted segment. Check the full release condition in PostHog.

Q: What does a flag stuck at a partial percentage mean? Usually a forgotten rollout. The team ramped to a partial percentage during testing and never completed or reverted it, leaving a fraction of users on the variant indefinitely.

Q: Can I customise the alert threshold? Yes, alert thresholds are configurable per profile in the Alert Rules tab. Adjust to match your business baseline rather than relying on the generic default.

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Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

Feature Flag Rollout Status is one of hundreds of KPI pulses Vortex IQ tracks across PostHog and 70+ other ecommerce connectors. Nerve Centre runs the detection layer; Vortex Mind investigates the cause when something moves; Ask Viq lets you interrogate any number in plain English.

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