[cdpfleet](https://cdpfleet.com/) / Recordings

Session recordings

# See what went wrong *at step 7*.

Sessions are recorded as video you can replay from the dashboard — no code, nothing to install. Use it to debug a failed run, to show a run to someone else, or to keep evidence of what a page displayed.

[Open your sessions](https://cdpfleet.com/app#sessions)[Docs](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/recordings)

-   **15 min**free per session
-   **7–30**days kept
-   **1080p**on a recording plan

## What is recorded

-   **Headful sessions** (the default): the browser's whole display, from the moment it starts.
-   **Headless sessions launched with `"cdp": true` or `"live_view": true`:** the page, from its screencast.
-   **Other headless sessions** are never recorded.
-   **Opt out** of any launch with `"record": false` — for pages with personal or sensitive data.

## Free, and recording plans

|  | Free | Recording plan |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Per session | the first 15 minutes | up to 240 minutes |
| Kept per account | the latest 180 minutes of video | up to 100,000 minutes |
| Kept for | 7 days | up to 30 days |
| Quality | 480p | 480p, 720p (1.5× the price), 1080p (2.5× the price) |

A recording plan is a monthly subscription priced from the storage it can hold; choose limits and quality in the dashboard and the price is shown before you pay. Recordings aren't part of the free Community plan.

## Watching and downloading

-   Each recorded session has a **▶ Video** button in Recent sessions and on the Sessions page; videos stream from a private, short-lived link and can be downloaded.
-   Over the API: `GET /v1/me/recordings`, `GET /v1/me/recordings/{id}/url` and `DELETE /v1/me/recordings/{id}`.
-   Videos are H.264 MP4 at one frame per second.
-   Recordings are stored privately in Germany, visible only to your account, and deleted on the schedule above — oldest first when an account is over its minutes.

## Related

Cases, recipes, posts and comparisons about this — updated as new ones are published.

### Reference docs

The details, options and errors.

-   [Session recording](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/recordings)What is recorded, limits and the API.
-   [Live view](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/live-view)Watch sessions while they run.
-   [Privacy Policy](https://cdpfleet.com/privacy)How recordings are stored.

### Cases 2

Real problems solved end to end, run on production in five languages.

-   [Case 41: A scrape broke: find out why from its session recording](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/cases/replay-a-failed-run)A scraper dies with a timeout. Its session was recorded anyway: fetch the video by session id and see the page it failed on, with no tracing set up in advance.[Code on GitHub](https://github.com/cdpfleet/cdpfleet/tree/main/cases/41-replay-a-failed-run)
-   [Case 18: Session replay without a vendor: Playwright tracing and video on a remote browser](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/cases/trace-and-video)Record a time-travel trace (actions, DOM snapshots, screenshots, network) and a video of a session running on the fleet, pull both to your machine, and open them…[Code on GitHub](https://github.com/cdpfleet/cdpfleet/tree/main/cases/18-trace-and-video)

### Recipes 2

Complete programs for one setup each.

-   [Headful Chrome that isn't recorded](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/examples#chrome-record-off)Headful sessions are [recorded](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/recordings) by default within your plan's limits; `"record": false` opts one launch out — for pages with personal or sensitive…[Code on GitHub](https://github.com/cdpfleet/cdpfleet/tree/main/examples/recipes/chrome-record-off)
-   [Record a headless session and get the video](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/examples#headless-recording)`record` is on by default, but a headless session is only recorded with `"live_view": true` or `"cdp": true`, as here. Measured with this launch and about 20 s of…[Code on GitHub](https://github.com/cdpfleet/cdpfleet/tree/main/examples/recipes/headless-recording)

## Read next

[Live view →](https://cdpfleet.com/live-view)[Profiles →](https://cdpfleet.com/profiles)[AI agents →](https://cdpfleet.com/ai-agents)[Pricing →](https://cdpfleet.com/pricing)

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