Description

This adds the functionality to record sessions in Metabase. Before releasing, we need to make sure this is enabled only on status.metabase.com and local development.

tl;dr of the feature:

• when user opens metabase, rrweb package starts recording events to browser’s indexed database
• clicking on a button "download bug report data" will collect the database information, save it to json file and download it
• this will be changed, we’ll be sending that to slack instead ✅
• we also collect network information to this database (rrweb does not collect it, although there seems to be a plugin in development for it) ✅
• no console legs yet, but will be added
• build information and debug information will be added as well
• data collected can be viewed and debugged using "metabase-debugger" which you can clone and run locally (we may add deployment too ✅ found here)

things to consider:

• compressing data
• placement of the rrweb script
• how to handle the fact we want to load this only on certain domains
• how can we make this play nice with debugging data we already have e.g. in the admin section

UPDATE 16th Sep 2024:

• the recording capability is now working
• setting a MS_INTERNAL_BUILD flag to true will enable the session recording
• bug reports are sent to #bug-reports-internal slack channel
• right now, json files can be downloaded from the slack channel and debugged on the debugger app
• in order for the recorder to be able to send the data, MB_SLACK_BOT_TOKEN needs to be set up
• currently, there is no build that would enable this anywhere. in order to make this into production (stats.metabase.com) we need to create a separate build with MB_INTERNAL_BUILD flag set to true