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.

Viewing sessions with Discover

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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:

copy the session.id from the relevant document.
Open the Discover page.
Select the appropriate data view (use APM to search all data streams)
set filter to the copied session.id

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:

Example view of Explorer selecting APM data view

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!

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