diff --git a/components/dashboard/src/onboarding/UserOnboarding.tsx b/components/dashboard/src/onboarding/UserOnboarding.tsx
index e2222a03f901ad..dcc779fcc71c1a 100644
--- a/components/dashboard/src/onboarding/UserOnboarding.tsx
+++ b/components/dashboard/src/onboarding/UserOnboarding.tsx
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import { StepPersonalize } from "./StepPersonalize";
 import { useUpdateCurrentUserMutation } from "../data/current-user/update-mutation";
 import Alert from "../components/Alert";
 import { useConfetti } from "../contexts/ConfettiContext";
+import { getGitpodService } from "../service/service";
 
 // This param is optionally present to force an onboarding flow
 // Can be used if other conditions aren't true, i.e. if user has already onboarded, but we want to force the flow again
@@ -74,7 +75,19 @@ const UserOnboarding: FunctionComponent<Props> = ({ user }) => {
                 };
 
                 try {
+                    // TODO: extract the IDE updating into it's own step, and add a mutation for it once we don't rely on it to consider a user being "onboarded"
+                    // We can do this once we rely on the profile.onboardedTimestamp instead.
                     const onboardedUser = await updateUser.mutateAsync(updates);
+
+                    // TODO: move this into a mutation side effect once we have a specific mutation for updating the IDE (see above TODO)
+                    getGitpodService().server.trackEvent({
+                        event: "ide_configuration_changed",
+                        properties: {
+                            ...(onboardedUser.additionalData?.ideSettings ?? {}),
+                            location: "onboarding",
+                        },
+                    });
+
                     dropConfetti();
                     setUser(onboardedUser);