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Bug: Type filtering insights is not displaying the correct insights

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#25,941 opened on Oct 31, 2024

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Description

Bug description

When viewing all insights, selecting the type of insight does not seem to correctly filter, with incorrect results being shown and insights missing.

How to reproduce

  1. Select Product Analytics and make sure "All insights" is selected.
  2. (Optional) Select a value for "On dashboard: filter"
  3. Verify you can see insights, and their type
  4. Select a dashboard type, for example "Trends"
  5. The results shown do not contain the correct matches, with insights missing

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Additional context

From https://posthoghelp.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/20026

Debug info

Organization ID: 0191a3cc-8904-0000-9962-7dd2da597b12
Admin Panel: https://us.posthog.com/admin/posthog/organization/0191a3cc-8904-0000-9962-7dd2da597b12/change/
PostHog Session Replays: https://us.posthog.com/project/2/person/#activeTab=sessionRecordings

Contributor guide

Research direction
Trace the filtering logic from the UI type selector through the API to identify why the returned insights do not match the selected type.
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