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Debugging

How to reproduce and fix bugs faster with session replay: what a recording captures, how to attach one to every bug report, and how to review without drowning.

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Most of the time spent on a bug goes into reproducing it, not fixing it. A stack trace tells you where the code failed; it does not tell you which clicks, inputs and page states led there. A ticket that says the button does nothing tells you even less. Debugging gets faster when the context arrives with the report instead of after three rounds of follow-up questions.

These articles are about using session replay as a debugging tool rather than a curiosity: understanding what a recording actually reconstructs, wiring it into the bug-report workflow so support never has to ask for screenshots, and reviewing recordings in a way that surfaces the sessions that explain a failure. The goal is a bug you can reproduce from the report alone.

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Where to start

What session replay is, and how it actually helps you debug
Start here: why a replay is a reconstruction rather than a video, what it gives you that a stack trace does not, what it will not solve, and how to use it when a bug comes in.
Bug reports with session replay attached: stop asking for screenshots
Then the workflow. Attach the session to the report instead of asking for it, triage by bug rather than by ticket, and deal with privacy before it becomes a problem.
Session replay without the noise
Finally, review discipline. Start from a question, watch five recordings rather than fifty, and cut noise at capture time so the session that explains the bug is easy to find.

Debugging