What Is Real User Monitoring (RUM)?

real user monitoring (rum) is a performance monitoring practice that is used to observe and measure the performance of a website or an application from the users' perspective rum captures data on how real users interact with the system in real time, which includes metrics like page load times, transaction speeds, error rates, and user behavior patterns this data provides insights into how users directly experience the system using this data, developers can identify and address performance bottlenecks, understand user behavior, and improve overall user satisfaction of their websites or applications real user monitoring with kloudmate rum must be integrated with an apm backend such as kloudmate for the rum data to be utilized effectively this integration is essential as the apm backend, kloudmate in this case, provides the necessary infrastructure and tools to aggregate, process, and analyze the rum data how does rum work? rum works by embedding small javascript snippets into web pages while they are in use these snippets record and send performance metrics back to a monitoring platform where the data can be queried and visualized the collected data is then analyzed using the monitoring platform's monitoring capabilities to understand various performance aspects the following diagram illustrates the step by step process of how real user monitoring (rum) works 1\ user interaction a website user interacts with the rum instrumented website or application, initiating various actions like accessing the website, navigating pages, clicking buttons, or submitting forms 2\ rum instrumentation the front end of the web page that is being accessed is instrumented with rum scripts, which include embedded javascript snippets as the user continues interacting with the page, the rum sdk will collect data on various performance metrics, such as page load times, resource loading times, and user interactions 3 data collection the collected data is sent back to kloudmate kloudmate then aggregates the data and allows for real time monitoring and analysis 4 analysis & visualization kloudmate creates a default dashboard dedicated to visualizing the collected rum data this dashboard is pre populated with all the critical information such as avg lcp, cls, inp, etc , and can be accessed within kloudmate's rum interface key concepts in rum true 160,100 unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type unhandled content type related resources https //docs kloudmate com/get started with rum https //docs kloudmate com/rum interface