Visual playback of the user journey: Introducing Session Replay in Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability

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Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability helps engineering teams quantify the end user experience by bringing metrics, logs, traces, and user session context to client-side web applications. Teams can monitor application health and performance over time, triage errors, and correlate frontend signals with backend telemetry to investigate issues across the stack.Yet some of the hardest frontend problems remain difficult to diagnose. A support ticket might report that a checkout button did nothing, a form unexpectedly reset, or a workflow broke only in one browser or on one device. Metrics can reveal a performance regression, logs can capture an error, and traces can expose a slow request, but no single signal shows what the interface actually looked like to the user.This is exactly why we built Session Replay, an add-on feature in Frontend Observability that provides a visual reconstruction of a user's journey, connected to the telemetry Grafana Cloud already collects. It helps engineering teams move from a reported problem to seeing what happened and knowing exactly where to investigate next.What is Session Replay in Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability?Session Replay, now in public pre