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Set Up Full Session Replay

How to turn on full session recording for your domains, keep sensitive content out of recordings, and choose which developer data is captured.

Written by Jon

Full Session Replay records every visit to the domains you choose, so you can watch how people use your site even when they don't report anything. Userback's code must already be installed on those domains. See Install the Userback Widget on Your Website.

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Turn on recording for a domain

  1. Click Replays in the left sidebar.

  2. Click Settings. On a site with no recordings yet, you can also click Turn on Full Session Replay.

  3. On the Domains tab, find the domain. Each domain shows whether it's Verified and when Userback last saw it.

  4. Turn on the toggle next to the domain.

You'll see "Full session replay turned on for" followed by the domain. New visits to that domain are recorded from then on.

Set privacy rules

Go to the Privacy Rules tab. Three rules are set up for you, and each has a gear icon to change it.

  • Block (.userback-block): the element and everything inside it is left out of the recording completely.

  • Ignore (.userback-ignore): the element's layout is kept, but anything the user types into it isn't recorded.

  • Mask (by default input[type="email"] and input[type="password"]): text is replaced with placeholder text shaped like the original, so the layout stays readable and the content doesn't.

To apply a rule, add its class to the element in your site's code, for example <div class="userback-block">, or add a CSS selector to the rule using its gear icon.

Rules for the short Session Replay attached to feedback are set separately, in Feedback > Settings > Privacy.

Choose developer data

Go to the Dev Tools tab and choose what's captured with each recording.

  • Console logs: Log, Warning, Info, Debug, and Error (including JavaScript runtime errors). All are on by default.

  • Network Requests: CSS, JS, image, font, XHR, and other requests. Off by default.

Turn recording off

Open Replays > Settings and turn off the domain's toggle on the Domains tab.

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