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# Session Recordings

Session Recording captures video of what happens in all Virtual Environments, so you can audit activity, investigate incidents, and train your team.

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Session Recording is disabled by default. Contact Replica support to enable it for your organization.
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## How Session Recording Works

Session Recording is an organization-wide setting. When it is enabled, Replica automatically records sessions in all Virtual Environments. Recording is automatic, and users cannot start, stop, or pause it. When it is disabled, Replica does not record sessions.

* **Start and stop**: Recording starts when a user connects to a Virtual Environment and stops when the user disconnects.
* **Screen video only**: Replica captures screen video. Audio is not recorded.
* **Segments**: Long sessions are split into segments. Each segment is stored as a separate `.mp4` file.
* **Participants**: The recording lists each user who connects to the environment and the time they joined.

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Users see no indicator while a session is being recorded. Update your acceptable use and privacy policies to tell users their Virtual Environment sessions will be recorded.
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## Access to Recordings

Only users with the **Admin** role can view session recordings. Standard users cannot see any recordings, including their own.

## View Session Recordings

To open the recordings list, open **Administration** and click **Recordings** under **Admin Links**.

The **Session Recordings** page lists each recording with the following details:

| Column           | Description                                          |
| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| **Name / ID**    | The Virtual Environment name and ID                  |
| **Started**      | The date and time the recording started              |
| **Duration**     | The total length of the recording                    |
| **Size**         | The total file size of the recording                 |
| **Participants** | The number of users who connected during the session |
| **Actions**      | A play icon that opens the recording                 |

## Play a Recording

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**Open the Recording**

On the **Session Recordings** page, click the play icon in the **Actions** column.
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**Review the Session**

The recording opens in the playback window. Use the video controls to play, pause, seek, or go full screen.
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**Select a Segment (Optional)**

To jump to a specific segment, click it under **Segments timeline**.

Click **Timeline** to view segments on a timeline, or **List** to view them as a list.
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The playback window shows:

* **Status**: The recording status, such as **Complete**.
* **Started**, **Updated**, **Duration**, and **Size**: Summary details for the full recording.
* **Details**: The base image and Environment ID of the recorded Virtual Environment. Click the copy icon to copy the Environment ID.
* **Participants**: Each user who connected to the session and the time they joined.
* **Segments timeline**: Each segment's file name, start time, duration, size, status, and participants.

## Share a Recording

Click **Copy playback link** to copy a link to the recording.

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**Copy playback link** copies the link for the segment that is currently playing, not the full recording.
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## Retention

Retention for session recordings is managed by Replica and may change over time. Contact your Replica representative if you have specific retention requirements.

See [Data Management](/admin-guide/data-management.md) for other platform retention details.


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