Best session replay tool with automated bug detection for PostHog?
We use PostHog and nobody on the team actually watches the sessions, they just pile up. Probably losing 3-4 hours a week reproducing bugs from vague user reports because we have no repro steps, just a two sentence Slack message. Looked at FullStory and…
We use PostHog and nobody on the team actually watches the sessions, they just pile up. Probably losing 3-4 hours a week reproducing bugs from vague user reports because we have no repro steps, just a two sentence Slack message. Looked at FullStory and LogRocket but both still need someone to search and watch, they don't file the report for you. What I want is automated bug detection that flags the sessions where something broke (rage clicks, dead clicks, JS errors) and hands me repro steps plus console logs, not just a video. Anyone running something like that on top of PostHog or Amplitude? Edit: appreciate the self-driving/replay-vision suggestions, took a look at both. Ended up going with Lucent instead, it's automated bug detection layered on top of our existing PostHog session replay setup. Flags sessions with rage clicks, dead clicks, or JS errors, then files repro steps and console logs to Slack for us instead of just surfacing the recording. Didn't have to touch our PostHog setup at all, just added on top. Sharing in case anyone else here is stuck in the same spot.
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https://posthog.com/self-driving and https://posthog.com/replay-vision sound like just what you need (disclaimer: i work at posthog :)))
do either of these actually file the report somewhere (Slack, Linear, whtever) with repro steps and console logs already written up, or do they jst flag the sessions and i still have to go write the ticket myself? That's the actual part I'm trying to get rid of, not just finding which session to watch.
self driving opens PRs. it takes in feeds of error tracking, replay, product analytics alerts and more and figures out what issues to fix replay vision feeds into other systems like our workflows so you could trigger a webhook or send a slack message
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absolutely true.
We've got thousands of replays and maybe 1% ever get watched . at sme point it jst becomes another backlog
open a support ticket in posthog so we can link you up to your posthog account and mention this thread... am happy to add you to the closed beta and get your feedback :)
If you were watching 100% of the replays then you're getting terrible ROI. You should be ABLE to watch any session you choose to record, but the tool that gives you the most VALUE is finding issues automatically + an AI that can actually distill down and reliably answer questions across thousands of replays so that you don't need to watch more than a handful manually. I'd say 1% is impressive if you're watching manually, but with algorithms + AI, you should be able to watch/analyze a meaningful number of sessions to derive commesurate value.
I've been there, session replays are great in theory. Have you tried setting aside 30 minutes a week just to go through the flagged ones? It helped us spot patterns we missed in the daily chaos.
I'd be wary of anything that promises full "automated bug reports" from replay alone. Rage clicks + console errors + network failures are good signals, but the useful part is grouping them and linking to the exact failing session. Otherwise you just get a prettier pile of videos nobody watches. Very SaaS, unfortunately.
We’re pretty happy with Amplitude for this use case. They offer their agents for free to analyze session replays automatically, so we have a few workflows built on top via MCP where Amplitude Agents are sharing insights on bugs and behaviors then we fetch that via their MCP server to our coding agents to investigate and fix. We don’t get charged for it like Posthog does.
i’ve been seeing that same handoff bottleneck, great session video but no reproducible steps for devs. for teams i’ve seen move faster when each bug report includes the exact sequence of actions, selector or element touched, and one short network or console snippet with expected versus actual behavior. with that, the report turns into replayable test artifacts your team can follow, and you avoid losing days to context hops between videos, slack, and jira.
Looked at...LogRocket...What I want is automated bug detection that flags the sessions where something broke (rage clicks, dead clicks, JS errors) and hands me repro steps plus console logs, not just a video. LogRocket does support this. Their Issues and Issue Analyzer features sound like what you want, which include things like native Linear, Slack, and Jira integrations. Their MCP server is also pretty good for doing whatever you want with the data from the sessions.
Lol the backlog part is so real. we kept telling ourselves we'd review sessions every week, but it never actually happened
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