RUM Session Management

RUM Session Management

**Value proposition**
OpenTelemetry's client-side SDKs (iOS, Android, Browser) do not offer built-in session management, hindering expected analysis when debugging frontend issues.

Session Management will handle creating and managing a stable Session ID to be attached to all signals from a single continuous user session—logs, metrics, and traces. This will allow for deeper analysis, including seeing events related to a given error, or understanding all the events that happened on a page before a user performed a specific action.

Session Management will also allow for better aggregations in RUM analysis by ensuring that session uniqueness is a consideration in visualizations.

**Expected outcome**
All EDOT RUM SDKs will automatically manage sessions; generating a unique Session ID and attaching it to all signals emitted across the session. Implementation will be documented, including any time-length boundaries and capabilities for handling multiple sessions (e.g. multiple browser tabs) or cross-correlation across devices (a session that starts on the web and moves to a mobile app).