Mobile Sessions

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In most cases, a user's interaction with your app is not limited to one action in one screen view. Sessions allow you to track your users' interactions across time, as they navigate an entire session with your app.

By default, sessions begin when a user starts using your application and ends after a configurable period of user inactivity. You can also, however, programmatically control sessions through the Mobile Agents SDKs (Android, iOS, Xamarin, Cordova). Using Mobile Sessions you can analyze sessionized results from all requests, as stored in the AppDynamics Events Service.

As in Network Request Analyze, the main Sessions screen is made up of two tabs:

Records
Charts

You can also view detailed information about each session in the Session Details dialog.

Records

The Records tab lets you scan individual sessions and allows you to filter and sort to get exactly the data in which you are interested.

Session Details

Click View Details or double-click an item to see the information for a specific session.

Session Timeline

The sequence of session frames for the session is shown on the session timeline and on the bottom of the screen. Select a specific frame by clicking on an icon on the timeline to see details highlighted at the bottom of the screen. You can also select a frame row at the bottom to see it highlighted on the timeline.

Session Details Categories and Types

Categories	Subcategories	Type	About
Views	Activity	Activity/Fragment	The current Activity in the foreground of an Android app. If the current Activity is not sufficient to understand what the user is doing, consider using the Session Frame APIs.
	Root Views	RootView	The current Root View in the foreground of the iOS App. If the current Root View is not sufficient to understand what the user is doing, consider using the Session Frame APIs.
	Session Frames	Session Frame	A manual API to label large user activities that are not captured out of the box by Activity or RootView tracking.
Screenshots	-	Screenshot	If you have configured mobile screenshots, they will appear in the timeline. They capture user events, and they can also be collected when in automatic mode.
User Interactions	Touches	Event	If you have enabled the Mobile Agent to capture UI events, you can view the UI events triggered by user interactions in the Timeline. See "Enable User Interaction Capture Mode" (iOS/Android) to learn how to capture UI events. If automatic screenshots are enabled, touches will be captured and include the screenshot that was captured at the same time. The touches are drawn on the screenshot.
	Buttons
	Table Cells
	Text Views
	Text Fields
Network Requests	Network Requests Normal	Network Request Normal	Network requests include the requested URL, duration, and status details of the HTTP request. To jump to more Network Requests details, click .
	Network Requests Slow	Network Requests Slow
	Network Requests Very Slow	Network Requests Very Slow
	Network Requests Stall	Network Requests Stall
Errors And Warnings	Application Not Responding Issues (ANRs)	ANR	You can view when the application was non-responsive in the timeline. ANRs are reported when the UI thread does not respond to an event for two seconds or more. To download or view the ANR Summary, click or respectively.
	Crashes	Crash	When an app crashes the subsequent activity will appear in the timeline. To download or view the Crash Summary, click or respectively.
	Errors	Error	If you have reported errors with the Mobile Agent SDKs, the errors will also appear in the timeline. See "Report Errors and Exceptions" (iOS/Android) to learn how to instrument your mobile apps to report errors and exceptions. To download or view the Error Summary, click or respectively.
Custom Data	Metrics	Custom Metric	Custom metrics display integer-based data on any metric you define in your application.
	Timers	Custom Timer	Custom timers display how long something takes between any arbitrary start point and end point, even if they span multiple methods.
	Info Points	Info Point	Information points display information on how a specific method in your code is performing.
	Breadcrumbs	Breadcrumb	Breadcrumbs are short messages to mark interesting events in a session, controlled by the Breadcrumb APIs in the agent.
System Events	Connection Transition	System Event	Connection transition indicates when a broadband transition has taken place, such as from Wifi to cellular.
System Events	Agent Init	System Event	Agent Init indicates when the Mobile Agent was first initialized. It can help with debugging the application lifecycle.

View Options

You can filter the categories in your timeline view by clicking View Options. Check all relevant categories for your search. All view options are checked by default.

Search Events

You can search for a specific event Description using the search box located in the top right of the session timeline screen.

Session Summary

You can see a summary of the session by clicking Session Summary.

Business Transactions

You can see a list of business transactions in the session if applicable. This tab only appears if you have business transactions in the selected session.

Click the business transaction name to redirect to the transaction flow map.

Charts

The Charts page provides you with a set of predefined widgets that offer visualizations of the data set you have created. As with the Charts pages of the other Analyze/Session features of the UI, you can delete, re-add, resize, and drag-and-drop to move all of the widgets.