# Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability

A hosted real user monitoring service that collects frontend telemetry to analyze web-application performance, errors, and user experience.

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## Visual playback of the user journey: Introducing Session Replay in Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability

DevFeed: [Visual playback of the user journey: Introducing Session Replay in Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/visual-playback-of-the-user-journey-introducing-session-replay-in-grafana-cloud-frontend-observability-8594.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://grafana.com/blog/visual-playback-of-the-user-journey-introducing-session-replay-in-grafana-cloud-frontend-observability/>)

Author: Lukasz Gut

Published: 2026-09-12T11:22:06.456390Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Grafana Labs blog on Grafana Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/grafana-labs-blog-on-grafana-labs.md>)

Topics: [session replay](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/session-replay.md>), [Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana-cloud-frontend-observability.md>), [Frontend observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend-observability.md>), [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [SDKs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdks.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [frontend-observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend-observability.md>), [grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana.md>), [grafana-cloud-frontend-observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana-cloud-frontend-observability.md>), [instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instrumentation.md>), [logs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logs.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/privacy.md>), [session-replay](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/session-replay.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>), [web-applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-applications.md>)

### AI overview

The article introduces Session Replay, a public-preview add-on for Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability. It visually reconstructs how a web application appeared and changed during a user session, linking that playback to session timelines and technical telemetry so engineering teams can investigate frontend problems more directly.

### Source excerpt

Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability helps engineering teams quantify the end user experience by bringing metrics, logs, traces, and user session context to client-side web applications. Teams can monitor application health and performance over time, triage errors, and correlate frontend signals with backend telemetry to investigate issues across the stack. Yet some of the hardest frontend problems remain difficult to diagnose. A support ticket might report that a checkout button did nothing, a form unexpectedly reset, or a workflow broke only in one browser or on one device. Metrics can reveal a performance regression, logs can capture an error, and traces can expose a slow request, but no single signal shows what the interface actually looked like to the user. This is exactly why we built Session Replay, an add-on feature in Frontend Observability that provides a visual reconstruction of a user's journey, connected to the telemetry Grafana Cloud already collects. It helps engineering teams move from a reported problem to seeing what happened and knowing exactly where to investigate next. What is Session Replay in Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability? Session Replay, now in public preview, adds visual playback capabilities to Frontend Observability. It reconstructs how a web application appeared and changed as a user navigated and interacted with it, so you can observe the journey as it unfolded instead of inferring it from individual telemetry events. Frontend Observability already brings together a chronological timeline of the events within a user session. That timeline tells you what happened and when. Session Replay adds the missing visual context: what was happening in the interface around those events and how one interaction led to the next. Because both views belong to the same session, you can move between the user experience and the relevant technical signals without losing the thread of your investigation. Session Replay builds on the Grafana Faro Web SD