# Proactive Frustration Watcher

**Category:** [Session Replay](https://help.totalctrl.app/hc/totalctrl/totalctrl-help-center/en-US/categories/session-replay)
**Updated:** 2026-10-04

## Hear about problems before your customers complain

The **Frustration Watcher** runs on a schedule and compares yesterday's error rate, rage-click rate, and average struggle against the trailing 7-day baseline for your site.
## What happens on a spike

When a signal breaks out (roughly double its baseline, above a floor), the Watcher automatically:

- **opens an AI investigation** so a confirmed finding is waiting for you (it appears in Investigations as an "Auto:" entry);
- **notifies workspace admins** (in-app and email, per your notification preferences); and
- **fires the `Session Replay: Issue Detected` trigger** so you can automate a response.

To avoid noise it alerts at most once per day per workspace, and only when there's enough traffic to be meaningful.

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## Related Articles

- [Getting started: install the recorder](https://help.totalctrl.app/en-US/articles/session-replay-getting-started)
- [Privacy, masking, and GDPR controls](https://help.totalctrl.app/en-US/articles/privacy-and-gdpr)
- [Install the recording SDK](https://help.totalctrl.app/en-US/articles/install-the-sdk)
- [Restrict recording to your sites with Allowed origins](https://help.totalctrl.app/en-US/articles/session-replay-allowed-origins)
- [Find and replay a session](https://help.totalctrl.app/en-US/articles/replay-a-session)

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