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This PR changes the replay session expiry behavior fundamentally.

Old behavior

  • When any session becomes too long (>60min), or the last user activity was >15min ago, we either
    • stop replay when it is an error session
    • or refresh the session if it is a "session" session
  • For non-buffering sessions, after 5 min we pause recording events until a user action happens

New behavior

  • Buffering session never expire and are never paused.
  • When any session (buffer or session) becomes too long, we stop the session and start new sampling
    • Based on sample rates, we call either .start() or .startBufffering() (or nothing if both sample rates are 0).
  • After 5min of inactivity, when not in buffer mode, we pause recording
  • We do not check 15min inactivity anymore, instead sessions continue to max. age and are restarted. The reason is that with the new logic you'd never get into this branch, because you'd always end up in paused state first anyhow.

This is quite a change and touches a bunch of places, and required changes to a bunch of tests. So although it's a bit hard to review, we should be very careful with this. But overall, it appears to be clearer to me anyhow what is happening.

Closes #8257
Closes #8400

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I've only taken a quick glance at this, but the approach seems sound to me. Will have to give it a thorough read in the next day or two.

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How can we test this on sentry.io before merging to master?

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mydea commented Jul 4, 2023

We could release an alpha if we're not 100% certain about it!

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fix(replay): Handle edge cases & more logging (#8558)
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This is a PR to this feature branch:
#8407

* Handle edge case where we stop multiple times (honestly no idea how
this should happen, but apparently it can 😬 )
* Add some more logging for state changes

We can hopefully eventually remove the `traceInternals` checks, but for
now this is an easy solution for debugging in the beta....
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mydea commented Aug 17, 2023

Close in favor of #8834

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