Expose a way to get session id

[nicgirault]

In my app, there is a "debug" page allowing users to send us a report. I would like to be able to display the session id in this report to help the support team accessing the logs corresponding to the session.

Right now I've to do something like this:

(datadogLogs.logger as any).session.getId()

It would be convenient to be able to do something like:

datadogLogs.getSessionId()

or

datadogLogs.session.getId()

meaning that the session would not be anymore a private attribute here: https://github.com/DataDog/browser-sdk/blob/master/packages/logs/src/logger.ts#L132

[bcaudan]

Hi @nicgirault,

Thanks for raising that, it is an interesting use case.
Let us think about how we would want to expose it and we will get back to you.

[ivanzusko]

Hi there 👋
Sorry for the disturbance. May I ask is there any progress on exposing a way to get session-id?

[bcaudan]

👋 Not at the moment
I think a consistent way to do that would be to expose a getInternalContext API like on the RUM side.
Happy to review a PR about it 😉

[paul-cla]

I came here looking for this information, and with the above hints I put DD_RUM.getInternalContext() into the Chrome console and one of the returned values is session_id. Is this what you're looking for?

[liywjl]

Hello 👋

We have added getInternalContext to DD_LOGS which should be available on version 4.15.0 of the SDK. This should allow access to session_id.