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Datadog
docs.datadoghq.com › real_user_monitoring › platform › generate_metrics
Generate Custom Metrics From RUM Events
To create a custom metric from a search query in the RUM Explorer, click the Export button and select Generate new metric from the dropdown menu. Give your custom metric a name that does not start with datadog.estimated_usage, such as rum.sessions.count_by_geography.
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Datadog
docs.datadoghq.com › api › latest › rum-metrics
Rum Metrics
A list of rum-based metric objects. ... The object describing a Datadog rum-based metric.
Discussions

🙏 Best practice to track custom performances
I want to track functions duration to determine if my web app is getting slower or faster I wanna monitor event in my app. More especially want to track performances during a drag and drop action. ... More on github.com
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February 24, 2023
Any real benefit on going with Datadog for AWS monitoring?
I’ve used Datadog at 2 different companies over the last 5 years. I also use CloudWatch on a regular basis. IMO Datadog is miles ahead of Cloudwatch in terms of UX and just general ease of querying data and creating useful dashboards and alerts. Ultimately you want to use a tool that you can also convince software developers to care about using and that’s been much easier with the nice UI that DD gives you. Datadog also has a large set of features that extend beyond what Cloudwatch is capable of that you should check out. The caveat is of course the price but IMO it is worth it. More on reddit.com
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Anyone who knows datadog?
I've made it my personal mission to dissuade as many people as possible from using datadog, it's just shit. You pay for it out a wazzo, but get a shittily made and shittily designed product that just doesn't work in the case of metrics. They are completely and utterly broken for any use cases where you actually need reliable data and not pretty pictures, including their "standard" dashboards. The only nice parts of datadog are APM, logs and the GUI, and even then they break constantly. Support is also utter shit, they stonewall you with tickets and miss half the questions plus they themselves don't know how their product works (it doesn't most of the time, but they will never admit it) I would understand if it was an opensource product, but not this shit when you spend tens of thousands of dollars for a medium size installation. Their pricing is also retarded and forces you to use third party stuff to lower your metric and APM usage costs, it's ridiculous. Just run More on reddit.com
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What are you using for error monitoring, session replay, user friction etc?
Contentsquare. But it’s $$$. They just acquired heap this year which was a smart play More on reddit.com
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Datadog
docs.datadoghq.com › real_user_monitoring
RUM & Session Replay
Visualize, observe, and analyze the performance of your front-end applications as seen by your users.
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Datadog
docs.datadoghq.com › real_user_monitoring › browser › data_collected
RUM Browser Data Collected
Comprehensive guide to RUM Browser SDK event types, attributes, and telemetry data—including sessions, views, resources, errors, and user actions.
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Datadog
datadoghq.com › product › real-user-monitoring
Real User Monitoring | Datadog
Monitor app releases in real-time to catch regressions early and ensure smooth rollouts. Measure key performance metrics like Core Web Vitals and load times to detect and resolve frontend bottlenecks.
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Medium
medium.com › @.gokberk › tracking-user-experience-with-datadog-rum-a-beginners-guide-725d2e25a358
Tracking User Experience with Datadog RUM: A Beginner’s Guide | by gökberk nur | Medium
May 28, 2024 - Since datadog is quite big and provide a lot of other monitoring tools, for RUM related logs are listed under digital experience tab. In this section you basically see overview of your applications performance metrics.
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Datadog
docs.datadoghq.com › monitors › types › real_user_monitoring
Real User Monitoring Monitor
Datadog evaluates the number of RUM events over a selected time frame, then compares it to the threshold conditions. Monitor over a facet: If you select a facet, the monitor alerts over the Unique value count of the facet.
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Datadog
docs.datadoghq.com › real_user_monitoring › rum_without_limits › metrics
Analyze Performance with Metrics
Datadog provides the below out-of-the-box metrics for a comprehensive overview of your application’s health over time. To ensure accuracy, these metrics are computed prior to retaining or discarding any sessions. This means that even though you keep 0.01% of your sessions, these metrics are computed based on 100% of the ingested sessions.
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Datadog
docs.datadoghq.com › real_user_monitoring › rum_without_limits
RUM without Limits
RUM without Limits provides you flexibility over your RUM sessions volumes by decoupling session data ingestion from indexing. This enables you to: Dynamically set retention filters from the Datadog UI without up-front sampling decisions or code changes · Retain sessions with errors or performance issues and discard less significant ones, such as ones with few user interactions · Even if you retain only a fraction of your sessions, Datadog provides performance metrics for all ingested sessions.
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Datadog
datadoghq.com › blog › track-customer-experience-with-rum-metrics
Generate RUM-based metrics to track historical trends in customer experience | Datadog
November 15, 2022 - This will open the metric in our new “Generate Metrics'' tab, where you can create and view all of your custom RUM-based metrics. RUM events collected by Datadog are automatically tagged with their event type, enabling you to quickly filter by session, action, or error.
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Datadog
datadoghq.com › blog › rum-without-limits
Introducing RUM without Limits™: Capture everything, keep what matters | Datadog
June 2, 2025 - RUM without Limits™ is now generally available in Datadog. You can start using it today to capture 100 percent of session data for complete visibility into your users’ experience while retaining only the sessions that matter most to your team. With high-fidelity, out-of-the-box metrics and dynamic retention filters, you’ll gain the insights you need to monitor availability, troubleshoot faster, and optimize user experience without overpaying for data you don’t need.
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Datadog
docs.datadoghq.com › api › latest › rum
RUM
Send Data to Datadog · DDOT Collector (Recommended) Other Setup Options · Semantic Mapping · Resource Attribute Mapping · Metrics Mapping · Infrastructure Host Mapping · Hostname Mapping · Service-entry Spans Mapping · Ingestion Sampling · Correlate Data · Logs and Traces · Metrics and Traces · RUM and Traces ·
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Datadog
datadoghq.com › blog › core-web-vitals-monitoring-datadog-rum-synthetics
Monitor Core Web Vitals with Datadog RUM and Synthetic Monitoring | Datadog
February 18, 2021 - Each page load step in a browser test now includes lab Core Web Vitals metrics by default, with the color indicating where your scores stand in relation to Google’s acceptable performance thresholds. You can click on any step to view the details of any errors thrown, as well as a breakdown of each process invoked (CSS style sheet imports, API calls, or HTTP requests, for example) to investigate a suboptimal score. The addition of Core Web Vitals scores to RUM and Datadog Synthetic Monitoring provides crucial insights into your application’s frontend performance, so you can maintain a seamless user experience and ensure that your site continues to rank well on Google.
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Datadog
docs.datadoghq.com › real_user_monitoring › browser
RUM Browser Monitoring
Datadog Real User Monitoring (RUM) enables you to visualize and analyze the real-time performance and user journeys of your application’s individual users.
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Datadog
docs.datadoghq.com › real_user_monitoring › guide › monitor-your-rum-usage
Monitor Your RUM Usage
To track the count of sessions generated by a RUM application, navigate to the Dashboard List and select a dashboard to track your RUM usage trend. Click + Add Widgets to open the widgets and apps side panel. Select Timeseries under Graphs.
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Datadog
docs.datadoghq.com › real_user_monitoring › browser › monitoring_page_performance
Monitoring Page Performance
A performance waterfall, accessible for every RUM view event in the RUM Explorer, which enables you to troubleshoot the performance of a specific page view. It displays how your website assets and resources, long tasks, and frontend errors affect ...
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Datadog
docs.datadoghq.com › real_user_monitoring › browser › tracking_user_actions
Tracking User Actions
The Datadog Browser SDK for RUM calculates action loading time by monitoring page activity following every click. An action is considered complete when the page has no more activity.
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GitHub
github.com › DataDog › browser-sdk › issues › 2036
🙏 Best practice to track custom performances · Issue #2036 · DataDog/browser-sdk
February 24, 2023 - Current state : Using the performance API and sending data as RUM Metrics Right now, I am tracking the data locally using performance API.
Published   Feb 24, 2023
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Medium
medium.com › techverito › unveiling-the-power-of-datadog-real-user-monitoring-rum-19f90ea4b6e8
Unveiling the Power of Datadog Real User Monitoring (RUM) | by Hrushikesh Pardeshi | TechVerito | Medium
January 19, 2024 - In simple terms, Datadog Real User ... real user interactions with various technical data, like tests, backend metrics, traces, logs, and network performance....