Explore mobile sessions with Discover

Elastic Mobile APM provides session tracking by attaching a session.id, a guid, to every span and event. This allows for the recall of the activities of a specific user during a specific period of time. The best way recall these data points is using Discover. This guide will explain how to do that.

The first step is to find the relevant session.id. In this example, we’ll walk through investigating a crash. Since all events and spans have session.id attributes, a crash is no different.

The steps to follow are:

Here we can see the session.id guid in the metadata viewer in the error detail view:

Copy this value and open the Discover page:

set the data view. APM selected in the example:

filter using the session.id: session.id: "<copied session id guid>":

explore all the documents associated with that session id including crashes, lifecycle events, network requests, errors, and other custom events!