Plugin Error Node

[sathishkannan162]

Bug Description

Bug description

Please describe. If this affects the front-end, screenshots would be of great help.

If you are on PostHog Cloud it would be really valuable if you can share any links where the problem occurs. This speeds up our ability to troubleshoot tremendously.

How to reproduce

1. Install posthog on ubuntu with docker.
2. You will see Plugin Error node on the validate requirements page

Additional context

• https://posthog.com/questions/plugin-server-node-error The above community discussions says that he faced this issue once but it got resolved once he updated to latest posthog docker. I am using the latest docker image. I don't know why the error happens.

docker image: https://hub.docker.com/layers/posthog/posthog/latest/images/sha256-00b97c3ab3ff65d810da4d5255b554a486e345d69366af9ff351563ad8df8e68?context=explore

Debug info

- [ ] PostHog Cloud, Debug information: [please copy/paste from https://us.posthog.com/settings/project-details#variables or https://eu.posthog.com/settings/project-details#variables]
- [ ] PostHog Hobby self-hosted with `docker compose`, version/commit: [please provide]
- [ ] PostHog self-hosted with Kubernetes (deprecated, see [`Sunsetting Kubernetes support`](https://posthog.com/blog/sunsetting-helm-support-posthog)), version/commit: [please provide]

[viswa]

@sathishkannan162 Did you get anything suggesting an error from the container logs for the plugin server? This could be related to https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/25373

[pauldambra]

fix to add value on upgrade or install is here https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/pull/25454

[pauldambra]

Hey I believe this is fixed by #25518 (certainly fixed my self hosted instance)

If you run the upgrade script we should now generate the key you need and things will start