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Part 1 of the browser SDK extension stack. Everything stays OpenTelemetry-native: new signals leave the page as OTLP, and new event-shaped data uses log records rather than span events.

What changes

Logs signal + MapleBrowser.logger

  • MapleBrowser.logger.{debug,info,warn,error}(message, attributes) writes OTel log records, linked to the active span and stamped with session.id / user.id.
  • Records queue in a small eager module (src/logs.ts, bounded at 200). The LoggerProvider and OTLP log exporter live in a new deferred chunk (src/deferred/) that init() imports right away, so the logs SDK (~5 kB) stays off the eager bundle.
  • A consent wrapper drops records made while consent was absent, the same rule spans already follow.
  • Later PRs in the stack put Web Vitals, breadcrumbs and feedback through this same pipeline.

tracing.sampleRate

  • Decided once per session (FNV hash of session.id), so a sampled session keeps every trace and its replay never links to a dropped one.
  • Sampled roots carry the W3C ot=th: threshold in tracestate; ingest already turns that into the SampleRate weight (docs/sampling-throughput.md), so request counts stay realistic.
  • Remote parents (server-rendered traceparent) are followed.
  • Error spans from captureException and the global handlers are always exported, detached from an unsampled parent so they are not orphans.

Size script

  • Reports the deferred chunk on its own line (every page load, after init()).
  • Eager budget 38 → 41 kB, first-party 14.5 → 16 kB: the sampler (~0.7 kB) and log queue (~0.5 kB) must exist before the deferred chunk lands; the rest is chunk-split overhead now that a second chunk shares the OTel core.

Testing

  • bunx vitest run in packages/browser: sampler unit tests (threshold encoding round-trips through ingest's weight formula, per-session stability, parent following, kept contexts), plus browser tests that exercise the real init() → deferred chunk → exporter path, including pre-init queueing, consent gating and sampling end to end.
  • bun run typecheck, bun run size, oxlint.

Stack

Review and merge in order; each PR is based on the one before it.

  1. feat(browser): OTel logs pipeline, MapleBrowser.logger and per-session trace sampling #1145 this PR: OTel logs pipeline, MapleBrowser.logger, per-session trace sampling
  2. feat(browser): error filters and linked error causes #1146 error filters and linked error causes
  3. feat(browser): XHR spans and page load timing #1147 XHR spans and page load timing
  4. feat(browser): Core Web Vitals as browser.web_vital log events #1150 Core Web Vitals as browser.web_vital log events
  5. feat(browser): breadcrumb trail on errors, console forwarding to logs #1151 breadcrumb trail on errors, console forwarding to logs
  6. feat(browser): opt-in HTTP failure errors, CSP and browser reports #1152 opt-in HTTP failure errors, CSP and browser reports
  7. feat(browser): @maple-dev/browser/react with error boundary and router adapters #1153 @maple-dev/browser/react: error boundary and router adapters
  8. feat(browser): error-triggered session replay (replay.onErrorSampleRate) #1154 error-triggered session replay (replay.onErrorSampleRate)
  9. feat(browser): headless user feedback API #1155 headless user feedback API (dropped)
  10. feat(browser): opt-in offline queue for spans and logs #1156 opt-in offline queue for spans and logs
  11. feat(browser): request/response headers on spans, replay bodies and canvas #1157 request/response headers on spans, replay bodies and canvas
  12. feat(browser): opt-in long animation frame and slow interaction spans #1158 opt-in long animation frame and slow interaction spans
  13. docs(landing): browser SDK logs, Web Vitals, error tooling, replay on error, React #1159 customer docs

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  • New Features

    • Added browser SDK logging with debug, info, warn, and error levels, including support for attributes and correlation with active spans and sessions.
    • Added configurable trace sampling by session. Error spans remain exported regardless of the sampling rate.
    • Logs created before initialization are buffered and sent when logging becomes available.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance on logging and trace sampling, and updated bundle-size estimates.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved exception reporting for traced operations and preserved active context when recording exceptions.

…n trace sampling

Adds the logs signal to the browser SDK and a way to sample traces.

- MapleBrowser.logger.{debug,info,warn,error} writes OpenTelemetry log
  records, linked to the active span and stamped with session.id/user.id.
  Records queue in a small eager module; the OTel LoggerProvider and OTLP
  exporter live in a new deferred chunk that init() imports right away, so
  the logs SDK stays off the eager bundle.
- tracing.sampleRate samples traces per session (FNV hash of session.id),
  so a sampled session keeps every trace and its replay never links to a
  dropped one. Sampled roots carry the W3C ot=th threshold, which ingest
  already turns into the SampleRate weight. Remote parents are followed.
- Error spans from captureException and the global handlers are always
  exported, detached from an unsampled parent so they are not orphans.
- The size script reports the deferred chunk on its own line. Eager budget
  38 -> 41 kB and first-party 14.5 -> 16 kB for the sampler and log queue.
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📝 Walkthrough

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The browser SDK adds configurable per-session trace sampling and structured logging. Log records can queue before initialization and export through a deferred OTLP pipeline. The bundle-size report separates deferred chunks from replay chunks and applies a deferred-size budget.

Changes

Browser telemetry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session sampling configuration and decisions
packages/browser/src/config.ts, packages/browser/src/sampling.ts, packages/browser/src/sampling.test.ts, docs/browser-sdk.md
The tracing sample rate is resolved with replay sampling configuration. The sampler uses session IDs for root-span decisions, follows parent sampling decisions, and adds threshold state to sampled roots.
Tracing and exception integration
packages/browser/src/tracing.ts, packages/browser/src/errors.ts, packages/browser/src/navigation.ts, packages/browser/src/tracing.browser.test.ts, packages/browser/src/navigation.test.ts, packages/browser/src/logs.browser.test.ts
The tracing provider uses the session sampler and resource attribute helper. Exception spans use a context marked for sampling. Navigation failures are captured separately when their spans are not recording.
Logger API and record queue
packages/browser/src/logs.ts, packages/browser/src/logger.ts, packages/browser/src/index.ts, packages/browser/src/logs.browser.test.ts, docs/browser-sdk.md, packages/browser/README.md
The public logger exposes four severity methods. Records include available identity and span context, queue before a sink attaches, and are tested for consent filtering and export fields.
Deferred log export and lifecycle
packages/browser/src/deferred/*, packages/browser/src/init.ts, packages/browser/package.json, packages/browser/scripts/size.ts, packages/browser/README.md
Initialization starts and stops the deferred OTLP log pipeline. The exporter filters records by consent and grant time. The size report separates eager, deferred, and lazy chunks and checks the deferred budget.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BrowserLogger
  participant Init
  participant DeferredLogs
  participant LogQueue
  participant OTLPExporter
  BrowserLogger->>LogQueue: emitLog record
  Init->>DeferredLogs: startDeferred after import
  DeferredLogs->>LogQueue: attach sink and drain pending records
  LogQueue->>OTLPExporter: forward records
  OTLPExporter->>OTLPExporter: filter records by consent and grant time
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Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2dc22

The new logging and sampling paths warrant design review. Consent is checked before logs are exported, but queued logs can outlive an SDK instance, log content does not receive the existing URL privacy treatment, and some failed operations can be lost when traces are sampled out. The exposure depends on how applications use and reinitialize the SDK.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Queued records retain their captured identity across SDK lifecycles. A record left after a deferred startup failure, or logged after shutdown, can be drained by a later initialization using that instance’s exporter and endpoint.
  • Medium · security · inferred: The new public logger forwards caller-supplied bodies and attributes to OTLP without applying the SDK’s URL privacy sanitizer. Applications that log sensitive URLs or values can therefore send them through this new path.
  • Medium · reliability · observed: At a sampling rate below one, a failed traced operation in an unsampled session can record its error only on a non-recording span. That operation’s error is not exported, contrary to the new documented error-coverage guarantee.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new content path reaches the configured ingest destination with SDK credentials and captured session or user identifiers. The effective exposure is bounded by the application’s configured destination and what it passes to the logger; downstream log handling was not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — If deferred logging fails after records are captured and a later SDK instance initializes with a different destination, the retained records can be exported under the later instance’s configuration. This is a conditional cross-instance disclosure path, not an observed production disclosure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The export-time consent check and grant-time filter protect against a queued pre-withdrawal record being exported after a later grant. They do not establish ownership of records across SDK shutdown and reinitialization without a consent change.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Sampling can remove the only span on which a caught traced-operation failure is recorded, weakening failure visibility even though standalone exception capture takes an explicit keep path.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind queued records to an initialization or destination, and define whether logger calls after shutdown are dropped or belong to a later instance.
  • proposed — Define and enforce the privacy policy for caller-supplied log bodies and attributes, including URL-bearing values, before OTLP export.
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- Line 348: Narrow the error-export guarantee in the docs and the sampleRate
description in the config documentation to standalone exception spans; do not
imply that errors recorded by unsampled MapleBrowser.traced() operations are
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- Line 69: Update SessionSampler’s traceState so ot=th is accompanied by an
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…e a traced failure

- Sampled roots now carry ot=rv next to ot=th, derived from the same
  session roll, and the decision is rv >= th. A downstream
  consistent-probability sampler reaches the same answer instead of
  re-deciding from the trace id.
- A failure inside traced() in an unsampled session was recorded on a span
  that is never exported. It is now reported as its own kept exception
  span, so "error spans are always exported" holds for traced() too; the
  shared dedupe still makes a later captureException a no-op.
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Confidence 3/5 · needs attention
quality 100/100 · no findings · tests covered · risk medium · 2/2 new units observable

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Adds an OTel logs pipeline behind MapleBrowser.logger, per-session trace sampling (tracing.sampleRate) with ot=th;rv on sampled roots, and reports a failure inside an unsampled traced() as its own kept error span. No defect found; safe to merge.

  • MapleBrowser.logger queues records and exports them to OTLP /v1/logs
  • SessionSampler decides per session and stamps ot=th;rv on sampled roots
  • traced() reports an unsampled failure through captureException
  • New tracing.sampleRate, clamped by the shared resolveSampleRate
What was checked
  • Weight math: ingest SAMPLE_RATE_EXPR right-pads th to 16 digits, so stripping trailing zeros keeps the weight exact (datasources.ts:150, sampling.ts:46)
  • keepContext only drops an unsampled parent, so a kept error is a weight-1 root (sampling.ts:20, deferred/logs.ts:17)
  • Consent: records dropped at emit and filtered again at export by consentAllowedSince (logs.ts:40, deferred/logs.ts:23)
Observability coverage: 2 of 2 changes observable
Change Kind Observable Evidence
browser logs export (emitLog → OTLP /v1/logs) outbound OTLP HTTP export yes OTLPLogExporter + resourceAttributes(); records carry session.id/user.id and the emitting span's context (deferred/logs.ts:44-68)
per-session trace sampling (SessionSampler) head sampling yes sampled roots set ot=th:…;rv:… and inherit to children, which is what the ingest SampleRate column reads (sampling.ts:85)

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