Observability providers often group periods of activity into sessions as the primary way to model a user’s experience within a mobile app. Each session represents a contiguous chunk of time during which telemetry about the app is gathered, and it usually coincides with a user actively using the app. Therefore, sessions and their associated telemetry are a good way to represent user experience in discrete blocks.
But is this really enough? Is there a better way to understand the intersection of users, app behavior, and the business impact of app performance?