Capture and analyze custom heatmaps in Session Replay
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Capture and analyze custom heatmaps in Session Replay


Summary

Datadog’s Session Replay now offers custom heatmap backgrounds, allowing users to directly capture specific UI states from their live site instead of relying on potentially inaccurate screenshots from replays. This feature lets teams save and share multiple backgrounds per view, ensuring everyone analyzes heatmaps with the correct context and eliminating repetitive setup work. Ultimately, this provides more accurate and reliable data about user engagement and experience.
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