How to start sessions replay

You can review the docs here: https://docs.mixpanel.com/docs/session-replay#implementation

Documentation is wrong. Calling start_session_recording without record_sessions_percent doesn’t work. Which defeats the point of the starting function.

Eric N. ☝️

The documentation doesn’t say how to enable it, if needed, before using start_session_recording.

It was indeed my plan not being the latest. Pricing page was giving an hint, not the plan details page.

Thanks for the heads up Christian G.! I’ll ask my docs team about this and to correct this.

To be clear, setting the record_sessions_percent init option officially enables Session Replay collection at the sample rate. The start_session_recording() allows you to force a session recording to take place even if it is not part of the automatic sampling. I can see how the naming of the init option does not clearly imply that it is also necessary to enable Session Replay in general. So thanks for the feedback. I just added an addendum to the documentation to make this more clear here and will have my team review this for accuracy before publishing.