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View the Full Session
The full session view in Web Events provides a complete, chronological event-by-event view of a user session.
Unlike the curated session detail panel in the Sessions tab, the full session view shows every event that occurred during the session in raw detail.
Access the full session view by clicking View full session in the session detail panel.
What the Full Session View Shows
The full session view organizes events by page view, with three main areas:
Left Sidebar
Shows all page views in the session in order, across browser tabs. Each page view displays its URL path and event count. Click any page view to see its event timeline in the main area.
The left sidebar above shows cross-tab tracking in action. Notice the "Switched to tab" entries — Dash0 automatically tracks when users switch between multiple browser tabs within the same session, preserving the complete user journey across tabs.
Page View Header
At the top of the main area, the header shows summary information for the selected page view.
- Domain — The host serving the page.
- Start — When the page view began (date and time).
- Load Time — How long the page took to load.
- User — The user's name and email (if identified via
identify()). - Location — Geographic location (city, country).
- System — Browser name and version, operating system and version.
- Web Vitals — LCP, INP, and CLS scores measured for this page view.
Replay
For recorded sessions, watch what the user saw and did. As the replay plays, the page details and events follow it. See Watch a Session Replay.
Event Table
Below the header, the event table shows every event that occurred during the page view. The table has five columns.
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Event | Human-readable event summary (e.g., "Finished loading after 435 ms", "LCP measured at 367 ms", "GET /api/products") |
| Type | Event type badge (see table below for all event types) |
| Start | Timestamp when the event occurred |
| Duration | How long the event took (n/a for instantaneous events like web vitals) |
| Timeline | Visual timeline bar showing when the event occurred and its duration relative to the page view |
The Type column in the event table above displays one of the following event types:
| Display Name | Event Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Page Load | browser.page_view | Initial page load or single-page navigation transition |
| Navigation Timing | browser.navigation_timing | Page load timing breakdown (DNS lookup, connection, server response, DOM processing) |
| HTTP | browser.request | Frontend-to-backend API calls with trace context linking to backend traces |
| Web Vital | browser.web_vital | Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) measurements |
| Error | browser.error | JavaScript exceptions and promise rejections with source-mapped stack traces |
| Rage Click | browser.rage_click | Repeated clicks on the same spot in quick succession, detected only in sessions with a session replay |
| Custom | Custom event types | Application-specific instrumented events with custom type names |
Rage clicks appear as labeled markers on the session replay timeline. Select a marker to seek to the first click in the burst. Dash0 shows the visible label of the clicked element when the Web SDK can capture it safely and falls back to its CSS selector when the label is masked. See Configure the Dash0 Web SDK for detection defaults, privacy behavior, and configuration options.
Click any event row to open the event detail sidebar on the right. The sidebar shows complete information about the event, including user context, performance metrics, trace correlation, and raw telemetry data. For details, see View Event Details.
Further Reading
- Watch a Session Replay. Play back what the user saw and move from the replay to the backend trace.
- About Web Events. Underlying event stream that powers the full session view.
- Correlate Sessions with Backend Traces. Complete end-to-end debugging workflow showing how to use the full session view to identify slow HTTP requests.
- View Event Details. Event detail sidebar that appears when you click an event row.
- View Session Details. Session detail panel showing summary, matched events, page flow, and web vitals.
- Understand Sessions. How sessions are defined, tracked, and expired.