Introduction to Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Abstract

Discover how users interact with your front end with Real User Monitoring (RUM). This course uses hands-on, real-world scenarios to introduce RUM basics. Learn how to:

Compare performance and usage across deployments to measure impact of changes
Save time chasing bugs by tracking and correlating error-related data
See how users interact with your app with visual recreations of user sessions
Make data-driven decisions by uncovering trends and insights in frontend telemetry

This course is an introduction to using RUM. It does not address installation and configuration. For details on adding RUM to JavaScript applications, see Configure Real User Monitoring (RUM) for JavaScript Web Applications.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, learners will be able to:

Explain what RUM data is comprised of, and how it is aggregated to surface trends and insights
Interpret RUM data to describe what occurred during a user session
Identify and translate important UX metrics in the RUM UI
Analyze RUM data to surface errors and identify root causes
Navigate and interpret basic Error and Deployment tracking data and metrics
Use RUM Session Replay to visually reproduce user sessions and bugs

Primary Audience

This course caters to frontend developers new to Real User Monitoring (RUM)—especially those interested in quantifying user experience, optimizing frontend performance, and gaining visibility into user interactions.

Prerequisites

For the best learning experience, we recommend the following prerequisites:

Datadog Learning Center lab environments, through previous experience or The Learning Environment course
Basic Observability concepts, as seen in Introduction to Observability

Technical Requirements

In order to complete the course, you will need:

Google Chrome or Firefox
Third-party cookies must be enabled to access labs

Course Navigation

At the bottom of each lesson, click MARK LESSON COMPLETE AND CONTINUE button so that you are marked complete for each lesson and can receive the certificate at the end of the course.

Course Enrollment Period

Please note that your enrollment in this course ends after 30 days. You can re-enroll at any time and pick up where you left off.

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