Stop letting your analytics hold your product hostage. Start making your Session Replay portable with PostHog.
// Start playback loop this.playbackLoop(); posthog session replay portable
private async replayInitialState(): Promise<void> const initialState = this.recording.events.find( event => event.type === 'initial_state' ); Stop letting your analytics hold your product hostage
Many regulated industries (Finance, Healthcare) require that user data—including screen recordings—must reside on servers within a specific geographic region or on-premise infrastructure. With "portable" replays, you can host PostHog in your own VPC, ensuring those session recordings never touch a third-party server. With "portable" replays, you can host PostHog in
: Your exported data is not a standard video file. The rrweb schema logs events, not pixels. Therefore, you cannot directly export a session replay as an MP4 file. To convert a session to video for broad sharing, you would need a headless browser or a Node.js script that uses the rrweb-player library to replay the JSON snapshot data and encode the resulting output to video.
Most analytics SaaS providers charge a premium for extended data retention. Keeping session replays for 6 to 12 months can cause your cloud bill to skyrocket. By leveraging portable data pipelines, you can retain active replays in PostHog for immediate troubleshooting, while automatically offloading older recordings to cheap, cold object storage (like AWS S3 or Google Cloud Storage) for long-term archiving. How PostHog Captures and Packages Replay Data