Posthog Session Replay Portable Portable Guide

I'll help you develop a portable PostHog session replay feature. This will allow you to capture and replay user sessions independently of the PostHog cloud service.

In conclusion, the "portability" of PostHog Session Replay is more than a technical feature; it is a statement about ownership. It rejects the idea that a vendor should own the user’s history. By making session replay data portable, PostHog empowers companies to treat their analytics as a permanent asset rather than a rented service. In a digital world where user behavior is the most valuable currency, the ability to take that insight with you—wherever you go—is the ultimate freedom. posthog session replay portable

• Sessions table: id, user_id (nullable), started_at, ended_at, duration, sample_rate, metadata
• Chunks table: session_id, sequence, timestamp, payload_location (S3 key), checksum
• Indexes on timestamp, user_id
• Retention policies via lifecycle rules on object storage + DB TTL jobs

The Sharing Button: On the video player interface of any specific replay, click the Share button at the top right. I'll help you develop a portable PostHog session

Step 2: Enable Session Recording Ensure your PostHog instance is capturing $snapshot events. PostHog automatically writes these to the posthog_session_recording_events table and mirrors them to S3. The Sharing Button : On the video player

Mobile Replay Limitations
iOS/Android replay is possible but less mature (requires manual instrumentation for screen recording). Web is the primary strength.

The data is gone from PostHog, but you still have your backup in your data lake. That is portability.

Data Pipelines: PostHog allows you to export events to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake. While this doesn't export a "video file," it secures the underlying data that powers the replay.

• Send console errors from a replay to your error tracker.
• Link a session replay URL to a backend trace ID.