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Product usage anomaly

Daily anomaly scan across product events — flag spikes and drops with the most likely deploy or cohort cause.

Eluu — product-usage-anomaly
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Mixpanel Google Sheets Slack
Runtime ~2 min per run
Tokens ~8K per run
Owner a product analyst

Works with

Pick whichever tool your team already uses.

  • Messaging
    Slack Teams
  • Spreadsheet
    Google Sheets Excel
  • Analytics
    Mixpanel Amplitude GA4
Mixpanel Pull event series
Google Sheets
Sheets Detect anomalies
Slack
Slack Post anomalies

What it does

Product usage drops rarely get noticed for days — by the time someone runs a query, the regression is buried in a release that already shipped. This recipe runs a daily anomaly scan across every tracked event, flags ±2.5 z-score moves, cross-references the deploy log, and posts the suspects to your product-anomaly channel.

How it works

  1. Pull events. Daily counts for every tracked event over the last 28 days are pulled along with a trailing baseline.
  2. Detect. Event-level z-scores are computed; anomalies above 2.5 absolute are flagged; the last 7-day deploy log is cross-referenced; most likely cause per anomaly is suggested.
  3. Post. Per-anomaly mini-cards land in #product-anomaly with the deploy candidate (PR or release tag) tagged.

Setup

  • Connect a product analytics tool (Mixpanel, Amplitude, or GA4).
  • Connect a spreadsheet destination (Google Sheets or Excel) for the detect step.
  • Connect a messaging channel (Slack or Teams).

Variations

  • Run hourly for critical events instead of daily.
  • Add a per-cohort breakdown (free vs paid, region).
  • Auto-create a Linear ticket if the anomaly persists past 24 hours.