name: error-tracking-svelte description: PostHog error tracking for Svelte metadata: author: PostHog version: 1.9.4

PostHog error tracking for Svelte

This skill helps you add PostHog error tracking to Svelte applications.

Reference files

• references/svelte.md - Sveltekit error tracking installation - docs
• references/fingerprints.md - Fingerprints - docs
• references/alerts.md - Send error tracking alerts - docs
• references/monitoring.md - Monitor and search issues - docs
• references/assigning-issues.md - Assign issues to teammates - docs
• references/upload-source-maps.md - Upload source maps - docs

Consult the documentation for API details and framework-specific patterns.

Key principles

• Environment variables: Always use environment variables for PostHog keys and host URLs. Never hardcode them.
• Minimal changes: Add error tracking alongside existing error handling. Don't replace or restructure existing error handling code.
• Autocapture first: Enable exception autocapture in the SDK initialization before adding manual captures.
• Source maps: Upload source maps so stack traces resolve to original source code, not minified bundles.
• Manual capture for boundaries: Use captureException() at error boundaries and catch blocks for errors that don't propagate to the global handler.

Framework guidelines

• Set paths.relative to false in svelte.config.js — this is required for PostHog session replay to work correctly with SSR and is easy to miss
• Use the Svelte MCP server tools to check Svelte documentation (list-sections, get-documentation) and validate components (svelte-autofixer) — always run svelte-autofixer on new or modified .svelte files before finishing