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title: Android
description: Monitor Android applications and generate metrics using Datadog RUM
breadcrumbs: Docs > Integrations > Android
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# Android
Supported OS Integration version1.0.0
## Overview{% #overview %}

With the Datadog [Android integration](https://app.datadoghq.com/integrations/rum-android), you can spend less time triaging issues and more time releasing new features by:

- Debugging the root cause of slow performance issues and application crashes in third-party libraries, network requests, or large media files
- Improving application responsiveness, setting up service level indicators (SLIs), and diagnosing issues with out-of-the-box dashboards, real-time metrics, and deobfuscated crash reports
- Intelligently grouping high-volume application errors into a manageable set of unique issues

Correlate the impact of the user experience on your business by:

- Analyzing critical mobile user experience data such as screen engagement by demographics, version releases, or any custom attributes, to reach your business KPIs
- Automatically correlating every user journey with a timeline of session events and attributes including ID, cellular activity, referral URL, and more
- Understanding user behavior trends with customizable analytics and geographical maps

Monitor the end-to-end health of your application by:

- Pivoting from your user experience data to backend traces, runtime metrics, and logs for the complete context when investigating issues
- Debugging crashes faster by unifying client-side and server-side metrics, traces, and logs
- Unifying full-stack monitoring in a single platform for frontend and backend teams

## Setup{% #setup %}

### Collect RUM events{% #collect-rum-events %}

To start collecting Real User Monitoring events from your application, see [Android and Android TV Monitoring](https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_monitoring/android.md?tabs=kotlin#setup).

### Collect traces{% #collect-traces %}

To start sending your Android application's traces to Datadog, see [Android Trace Collection](https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/trace_collection/dd_libraries/android.md). Additionally, you can [Connect RUM and Traces](https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_monitoring/connect_rum_and_traces.md?tab=androidrum#setup-rum).

### Collect logs{% #collect-logs %}

To start forwarding your Android application's logs to Datadog, see [Android Log Collection](https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/log_collection/android.md?tab=kotlin).

## Data Collected{% #data-collected %}

### Metrics{% #metrics %}

The Android integration does not include any metrics. To generate custom metrics from your RUM application, see [Generate Metrics](https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_monitoring/generate_metrics.md).

### Events{% #events %}

For more information about events and attributes, see [RUM Android Data Collected](https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_monitoring/android/data_collected.md).

### Service Checks{% #service-checks %}

The Android integration does not include any service checks.

## Troubleshooting{% #troubleshooting %}

Need help? Contact [Datadog Support](https://docs.datadoghq.com/help/).

## Further Reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Android and Android TV Monitoring Setup](https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_monitoring/android.md)