Pausing session recording, blocking bots, and user permissions in the latest SessionStack update

In the past months, SessionStack has rolled out several new features. Their main focus is to let you record more relevant sessions and make the most out of your monthly sessions quota.

Pause session recording per project

SessionStack is rather flexible in terms of when and how the session recording starts. It can start automatically once your app/website is loaded, when a specific page is visited, or manually after a specific user action by using our JavaScript API. And sometimes you need to stop the recording for a specific project. Now you can disable it with a single flip of a switch. This allows you to keep your current project settings, avoid code changes, and flip it back again once you want for the recording to continue.

Block Google bots

Indexing bots these days are rather sophisticated and can simulate an actual user. They load your app/website in a similar environment to ensure that it’s rendered properly and crawl through the pages to extract all the relevant information needed for them to be indexed. This of course can lead to having recorded sessions from such bots. SessionStack can now be enabled to block Google bots and save your monthly sessions quota for the relevant sessions.

Disable project settings editing for team members (on-premises only)

Sometimes you need to ensure that users from your team cannot modify the settings of your SessionStack projects and only a select few to be able to do this. Exactly this is now available for on-premises deployments of SessionStack. The access and update of project settings can be disabled for read-only users and be available only for admin users.

We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions. Let us know what you’d like to see next in SessionStack.

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