feat(browser): error-triggered session replay (replay.onErrorSampleRate) - #1154
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Keeping replay affordable meant a low replay.sampleRate, which meant most errors had no replay. replay.onErrorSampleRate covers the sessions the sample rate leaves out: they record into memory only and keep the replay if an error happens. - Session record: a per-session replay mode (record / buffer / off), rolled once and persisted like the replay sample, and replayTrigger. - Recorder: startBufferedRecording checks out every 30s and keeps the segments since the second-to-last snapshot (30-60s, capped at 4 MB), uploading nothing. drain() uploads them as checkpoint chunks, claiming their chunk seqs before the streaming recorder that follows can. The chunk upload is shared with the streaming recorder. - Replay session: mode "buffer" plus trigger(), which drains, switches to the streaming recorder and distilled event capture, marks the session recorded (later loads record from the start) and posts a fresh active row, now with maple.session.replay_trigger: "error". The lifecycle's recorded flag can be read live for this, and its handle gains announce(). A rotated session buffers again until its own error. - @maple-dev/browser: the error hook becomes a listener set, shared by breadcrumbs and the replay trigger. Only errors that pass the filters trigger. - The Effect SDK's standalone lease forwards announce(). The web player starts from the first event's timestamp, so a recording that begins a minute before the error plays as is.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe browser SDK adds configurable replay buffering for eligible sessions. After a recorded error, it uploads buffered replay, continues streaming capture, and marks the replay with the error trigger. ChangesError-triggered replay
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant recordFailure
participant onErrorRecorded
participant startReplaySession
participant BufferedRecorder
participant uploadChunk
participant startRecording
recordFailure->>onErrorRecorded: Notify listeners for a recorded error
onErrorRecorded->>startReplaySession: Invoke the active replay trigger
startReplaySession->>BufferedRecorder: Drain pending segments
BufferedRecorder->>uploadChunk: Upload checkpoint chunks
startReplaySession->>startRecording: Start streaming capture
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to An error captured while replay is loading can lack its expected replay. Retaining the trigger until startup completes would close this bounded timing gap; otherwise the change is mergeable with owner awareness. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Error-triggered replay preserves the existing masking and upload destination controls, but its pending buffer uploads are not covered by consent-revocation cleanup. This creates a bounded privacy risk for sessions that previously produced no replay. Retained concerns
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- Around line 217-220: Update the onErrorRecorded handler to retain a trigger
for the current runtime when runtime.replay is not yet available, then apply the
trigger when startReplaySession creates the replay handle. Clear any pending
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| const stopReplayTrigger = onErrorRecorded(() => { | ||
| void runtime?.replay?.trigger() | ||
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Latch error triggers while replay is loading.
runtime is assigned before the lazy replay import resolves. If a captured error passes shouldCapture during that interval, runtime.replay is absent and the listener drops the trigger. startReplaySession() then starts in buffer mode, which uploads only after trigger(). That session remains buffered and loses the replay for the captured error.
Store the trigger against the current runtime and apply it after the replay handle is created. Clear it when that runtime stops.
Suggested fix
let runtime: BrowserRuntime | undefined
+ let pendingReplayTrigger: BrowserRuntime | undefined
let stopped = false
...
next.replay = startReplaySession({
...shared,
maskAllInputs: config.maskAllInputs,
maskAllText: config.maskAllText,
mode: replayMode,
})
+ if (pendingReplayTrigger === next) {
+ pendingReplayTrigger = undefined
+ void next.replay?.trigger()
+ }
})
...
const previous = runtime
runtime = undefined
+ if (pendingReplayTrigger === previous) pendingReplayTrigger = undefined
if (!previous) return
...
const stopReplayTrigger = onErrorRecorded(() => {
- void runtime?.replay?.trigger()
+ const current = runtime
+ if (current?.replay) void current.replay.trigger()
+ else if (current?.replayPending) pendingReplayTrigger = current
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Review comment at @packages/browser/src/init.ts around lines 217 - 220:
Update the onErrorRecorded handler to retain a trigger for the current runtime
when runtime.replay is not yet available, then apply the trigger when
startReplaySession creates the replay handle. Clear any pending trigger when
that runtime stops.
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Part 8 of the browser SDK stack. Based on #1153.
Keeping replay affordable meant a low
replay.sampleRate, which meant most errors had no replay.replay.onErrorSampleRatecovers the sessions the sample rate leaves out: they record into memory only and keep the replay if an error happens.What changes
@maple/browser-session(shared with the Effect SDK; changes are generic)record/buffer/off), rolled once and persisted like the existing replay sample, plusreplayTrigger.startBufferedRecording: rrweb with 30s checkouts, keeping only the segments since the second-to-last snapshot (30–60s, capped at 4 MB). Nothing uploads.drain()uploads them as checkpoint chunks and claims their chunk seqs synchronously, before the streaming recorder that follows can. The chunk upload is extracted and shared with the streaming recorder.startReplaySession({ mode: "buffer" })plustrigger(), which:activerow withmaple.session.replay_trigger: "error".recordedflag can be read live and its handle gainsannounce(). A rotated session buffers again until its own error.@maple-dev/browserEffect SDK
announce().Checked
replay-player-context.tsx), so a recording that begins a minute before the error plays as is.Testing
stopdiscards.captureException, the session record is triggered and a blob is uploaded.packages/effect-sdktypecheck and client tests.Need help on this PR? Tag
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replay.onErrorSampleRateto buffer up to about one minute of replay data and upload it when an error is recorded; capture then continues for the rest of the session.