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View session replays

Note

Session Replay is currently in private preview. Grafana Labs offers support on a best-effort basis, and breaking changes might occur prior to the feature being made generally available.

After your application is instrumented with the Faro Web SDK with Replay Instrumentation enabled, session recordings are available in Grafana Cloud > Frontend Observability > Sessions.

From the Sessions tab you can:

  • Browse and filter sessions.
  • Jump directly from an error, log, or trace into the corresponding replay.
  • Replay browser interactions to reproduce and investigate frontend issues.
  • View the recording for a selected session either inline with the user journeys or in a full-screen view.

After a session is recorded, it can take up to five minutes for the recording to appear in Frontend Observability. For an ongoing session, new portions of the recording also appear in intervals of up to five minutes.

You can’t watch a live session in real time.

Session replay controls

The player includes the following control options:

  • Basic controls: You can play, pause, and scrub forwards or backwards.
  • Replay speed: You can select the replay speed to either slow it down or speed it up.
  • Skip inactivity: The skip inactivity toggle lets you skip parts of the recording where there’s no user action, such as clicks, scrolling, or typing.
  • Share: The share button lets you copy a link to the replay and the specific position in the session, so you can share that with your team when debugging application issues.