RUM & Session Replay

What is Real User Monitoring?

Datadog’s Real User Monitoring (RUM) gives you end-to-end visibility into the real-time activity and experience of individual users. RUM solves four types of use cases for monitoring web and mobile applications:

• Performance: Track the performance of web pages, mobile application screens, user actions, network requests, and your front-end code.
• Error Management: Monitor the ongoing bugs and issues and track them over time and versions.
• Analytics / Usage: Understand who is using your application (country, device, OS), monitor individual users journeys, and analyze how users interact with your application (most common page visited, clicks, interactions, and feature usage).
• Support: Retrieve all of the information related to one user session to troubleshoot an issue (session duration, pages visited, interactions, resources loaded, and errors).

A user session is a user journey on your web or mobile application lasting up to four hours. A session usually includes page views and associated telemetry. If a user does not interact with an application for 15 minutes, the session is considered complete. A new session starts when the user interacts with the application again.

What is Session Replay?

Datadog’s Session Replay allows you to capture and visually replay the web browsing experience of your users.

Combined with RUM performance data, Session Replay is beneficial for error identification, reproduction, and resolution, and provides insights into your web application’s usage patterns and design pitfalls.

Get started

Select an application type to start collecting RUM data:

Explore Datadog RUM

Out-of-the-box dashboards

Analyze information about your user sessions, performance, mobile applications, frustration signals, network resources, and errors collected automatically with out-of-the-box RUM dashboards.

RUM Explorer and visualizations

View user sessions in segments, such as checking when latency impacts your premium customers, with visualizations. Explore data, save views, and create monitors on your customized searches.

Integration with logs, APM, and profiler

View your backend traces, logs, and infrastructure metrics down to the exact line of code impacting your application performance, corresponding to user experiences and reported issues.

Error tracking and crash reporting

Get automated alerts on outliers and groups of errors, timeouts, and crashes to significantly reduce your MTTR with Error Tracking.

Web and mobile vitals

View performance scores and metrics for browser applications such as Core Web Vitals and Mobile Vitals for iOS and tvOS or Android and Android TV applications.

Web view tracking

Collect information from your native web applications and explore hybrid views with Web View Tracking for iOS and tvOS or Android and Android TV.

Explore Datadog Session Replay

Session replays

Watch browser recordings of real users interacting with your website and set privacy controls for your organization.

Developer tools

Access triggered logs, errors, and performance information when troubleshooting application issues using Browser Dev Tools.

Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Check out the latest Datadog RUM releases! (App login required)RELEASE NOTES Introducing Datadog Real User MonitoringBLOG Improve mobile user experience with Datadog Mobile Real User MonitoringBLOG Best practices for monitoring mobile app performanceBLOG Make sense of application issues with Datadog Error TrackingBLOG Unify APM and RUM data for full-stack visibilityBLOG Use geomaps to visualize your app data by locationBLOG Get better RUM data with our custom React componentsBLOG Monitor your hybrid mobile applications with DatadogBLOG How Datadog's Technical Solutions team uses RUM, Session Replay, and Error Tracking to resolve customer issuesBLOG RUM Browser Data CollectedDOCUMENTATION