Overview
Real User Monitoring allows you to monitor web views and eliminate blind spots in your hybrid iOS and tvOS applications.
You can perform the following:
- Track user journeys across web and native components in mobile applications
- Scope the root cause of latency to web pages or native components in mobile applications
- Support users that have difficulty loading web pages on mobile devices
Setup
Prerequisites
Set up the web page you want rendered on your mobile iOS and tvOS application with the RUM Browser SDK first. For more information, see RUM Browser Monitoring.
Declare DatadogWebViewTracking as a dependency
To enable Crash Reporting, make sure to also enable RUM and, or Logs. Then, add the package according to your dependency manager and update your initialization snippet.
You can use CocoaPods to install dd-sdk-ios:
pod 'DatadogWebViewTracking'
To integrate using Apple’s Swift Package Manager, add the following as a dependency to your Package.swift:
.package(url: "https://github.com/Datadog/dd-sdk-ios.git", .upToNextMajor(from: "2.0.0"))
In your project, link the following libraries:
DatadogCore
DatadogWebViewTracking
You can use Carthage to install dd-sdk-ios:
github "DataDog/dd-sdk-ios"
In Xcode, link the following frameworks:
DatadogWebViewTracking.xcframework
Instrument your web views
The RUM iOS SDK provides APIs for you to control web view tracking. To enable Web View Tracking, provide the WKWebView instance.
import WebKit
import DatadogWebViewTracking
let webView = WKWebView(...)
WebViewTracking.enable(webView: webView, hosts: ["example.com"])
To disable Web View Tracking:
WebViewTracking.disable(webView: webView)
Access your web views
Your web views appear as events and views in the RUM Explorer with associated service and source attributes. The service attribute indicates the web component the web view is generated from, and the source attribute denotes the mobile application’s platform, such as iOS.
Filter on your iOS and tvOS applications, and click a session. A side panel with a list of events in the session appears.
Click Open View waterfall to navigate from the session to a resource waterfall visualization in the view’s Performance tab.
Further Reading
Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:
