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Session recording

Grab the popcorn. See how people really use your product.

“I was watching session recordings for our sign-up page and realized a lot of people were trying to click something that wasn’t actually a button. We wouldn’t have noticed that needed fixing without PostHog’s session recordings.”

Instant realtime GraphQL APIs
Anubhuti MishraUI/UX Designer, Hasura

Play back sessions to diagnose UI issues, improve support and get inspired.

Understand why and how users get stuck

Debug faster, or build context on user stories. Nothing beats watching people use your product for real.

Quickly filter for important moments

Filter recordings for users who completed a specific event, or zoom in on errors, rageclicks and more.

Block sensitive data, even from PostHog

Avoid recording private data simply by adding a CSS class to elements and fields you don't want to capture.

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Platform 
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Cloud hosting
Product analytics
Session Recording 
Single-page app support
Mobile app recordings
Identity detection
Target recordings by URL
Target by sample size
Filter recordings by user or event
Rage-click detection
Privacy masking for sensitive content
Export recordings
Retention policy for recordings1 year1 month24 monthsPostHog Cloud: 3 weeks
Self-hosted: No limit

Session recording documentation

  • Using Session Recording
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  • Preserving recordings
  • Troubleshooting
  • My browser freezes / crashes when recordings are enabled
  • Recordings are not being captured
  • Permitted domain setting
  • posthog-js configurations
  • Content security policy
  • Ad/tracking blockers
  • Website is not recording properly
  • Update posthog-js
  • Report your specific issue

Where else can you get self-hostable product analytics, session recording, feature flags, A/B testing, heatmaps, a library of 50+ apps, event pipelines, a data warehouse, and an API... all in one place?

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