Posthog - Session Replay Portable ((install))

The proxy writes the JSON payloads to a local SQLite database or an encrypted directory on the host machine. Step 3: Handling Offline Storage on the Client

If session replay is a critical part of your product analytics, don’t treat it as disposable. With PostHog, you can own, move, and integrate replay data like any other first-class event. That’s what makes it future-proof.

The most comprehensive form of data portability is self-hosting. As a truly open-source platform, you can deploy your own instance of PostHog on your own infrastructure. This gives you full ownership of your data and allows you to manage your session replay storage with your chosen tools, such as MINIO for blob storage.

Recording canvas/WebGL or long-lived DOM mutations can be heavier than Hotjar’s lightweight snapshots. You’ll need to tune sampling and masking rules.

switch (event.type) case 'click': this.replayClick(event.data, doc); break; case 'mousemove': this.replayMouseMove(event.data, doc); break; case 'scroll': this.replayScroll(event.data, doc); break; case 'input': this.replayInput(event.data, doc); break; case 'submit': this.replaySubmit(event.data, doc); break; case 'navigation': this.replayNavigation(event.data, doc); break; case 'console': this.replayConsole(event.data); break; case 'error': this.replayError(event.data); break;

"PostHog session replay portable" refers to the ability to:

To understand why portability matters, you must first understand the standard SaaS model.