[Replay] Keyboard input should count as user-activity and extend the life of a session

[ryan953]

If we don't count keyboard events, then a18n use cases, or power-users that use the keyboard a lot could be completely ignored in some apps.

[github-actions]

This issue has gone three weeks without activity. In another week, I will close it.

But! If you comment or otherwise update it, I will reset the clock, and if you label it Status: Backlog or Status: In Progress, I will leave it alone ... forever!

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[p-himik]

Just noticed this as well - saw some really strange behavior on a replay and couldn't grasp what was going on initially. Turned out, a user was hitting a key combination that the app handles but Sentry wasn't showing that.

[mydea]

Hi @p-himik ,

thanks for writing in.
I fear collecting which keys are pressed is not really feasible, from a PII perspective - we can't easily determine why a key is pressed, and we would def. not want to capture e.g. what a user types into a field (imagine us capturing a breadcrumb for each key pressed while a user types into a password field... 😓 ). I think the use case of capturing keyboard shortcuts is valid, though. I wonder how we could identify this... maybe only capture the keys pressed when no input is focused? I guess this may be safe to do... WDYT @ryan953 / @billyvg / @bruno-garcia

[p-himik]

Things that are useful in my own projects:

• Capturing some particular or all keys when no input is focused (still problematic because a user might start typing some PII while thinking that the right input is focused, without looking at the screen)
• Capturing key combinations with modifiers regardless of what is focused (Ctrl+z being the most salient one, probably)
• Knowing that a regular character key has been entered into an input field (this is probably already handled, don't recall)

Personally, I would be quite happy if there were these things implemented:

• If a key is pressed with Ctrl/Alt/Command/Option, log it
• If a key is not a character, log it (Home, End, arrow keys, etc.)
• If a key is pressed without a modifier or with Shift, log only the fact that something has been pressed, without writing the key itself
• Have an ability to override the above for particular keys, maybe in particular contexts (e.g. suppose I'm emulating Vim on my page - I would like to log all navigation but avoid logging in the Insert mode)