Go beyond funnels and charts to understand exactly how users experience your product. Session Replay turns quantitative signals into qualitative answers, so you can find friction, fix bugs, and ship changes with confidence.

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Pair your metrics with a video of what users actually did.
{% /outcome %}
{% outcome icon="Eye" title="Find the session behind the metric" href="/docs/session-replay/session-replay-viewer" %}
Go from a chart, funnel, or support ticket to the exact session.
{% /outcome %}
{% outcome icon="Target" title="See where users click and scroll" href="/docs/heatmaps" %}
Understand which parts of a page get attention and which get ignored.
{% /outcome %}
{% outcome icon="Zap" title="Spot friction users don't report" href="/docs/session-replay/overview#frustration-analytics" %}
Catch rage clicks, dead clicks, and errors across sessions.
{% /outcome %}
{% outcome icon="ShieldCheck" title="Protect customer privacy" href="/docs/session-replay/manage-privacy-settings-for-session-replay" %}
Mask sensitive content, honor consent, and control what gets captured.
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{% outcome icon="Workflow" title="Capture the sessions that matter" href="/docs/session-replay/targeted-replay-capture" %}
Focus replays on specific users, pages, and flows.
{% /outcome %}
{% /outcomes %}

## Instrument Session Replay

Session Replay requires instrumentation beyond standard Amplitude instrumentation. Start with the [SDK catalog](/docs/session-replay/instrument-session-replay), or jump to the implementation guide for your platform.

- [Browser SDK plugin](/docs/session-replay/session-replay-plugin) for teams that already use the Amplitude Browser SDK.
- [Browser standalone SDK](/docs/session-replay/session-replay-standalone-sdk) for teams that need replay capture without the Browser SDK.
- [iOS plugin](/docs/session-replay/session-replay-ios-plugin) or [iOS standalone SDK](/docs/session-replay/session-replay-ios-standalone-sdk).
- [Android plugin](/docs/session-replay/session-replay-android-plugin) or [Android standalone SDK](/docs/session-replay/session-replay-android-standalone).
- [React Native plugin](/docs/session-replay/session-replay-react-native-sdk-plugin) or [React Native standalone SDK](/docs/session-replay/session-replay-react-native-standalone-sdk).
- [Google Tag Manager](/docs/session-replay/session-replay-google-tag-manager), [Segment](/docs/session-replay/session-replay-integration-with-segment), and [RudderStack](/docs/session-replay/session-replay-rudderstack-integration) integrations.

## View and analyze replays

Use replays to understand the exact user sessions behind charts, support tickets, and homepage activity. Pair playback with analysis tools that surface patterns across many sessions.

- [View and search replays](/docs/session-replay/session-replay-viewer) from charts, User Look-Up, your homepage, or the replay search page.
- [Create heatmaps](/docs/heatmaps) to analyze click, selector, and scroll behavior.
- [Use zoning](/docs/zoning-insights) to group related page elements for heatmap analysis.
- [Filter replays by sentiment](/docs/session-replay/filter-replays-by-sentiment) to focus on feedback signals.
- [Bookmark session replays](/docs/session-replay/bookmarkable-session-replays) to keep important sessions beyond the standard retention period.

## Privacy and operations

Session Replay includes privacy controls for masking, user consent, and user-generated content. Configure these controls before you capture production traffic.

- [Manage privacy settings](/docs/session-replay/manage-privacy-settings-for-session-replay) for masking levels and overrides.
- [Apply consent management best practices](/docs/session-replay/best-practices-for-managing-user-consent) before you capture replay data.
- [Create user-generated content filter rules](/docs/session-replay/ugc-filter-rules) to prevent sensitive content capture.
- [Monitor replay ingestion](/docs/session-replay/ingestion-monitor) to track capture volume and ingestion health.
- [Configure targeted replay capture](/docs/session-replay/targeted-replay-capture) to capture sessions that match specific events, properties, or page URLs.

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