Playwright

Tracing Commands

Record and view detailed execution traces including screenshots, DOM snapshots, and network logs.

4 commands

Pro Tips

Enable tracing on-first-retry for efficient CI debugging

$ npx playwright test --trace=on

Record trace for all tests.

$ npx playwright test --trace=on-first-retry

Record trace only on retries.

$ npx playwright show-trace trace.zip

Open trace viewer.

$ npx playwright test --trace=retain-on-failure

Keep traces only for failures.