Android and Android TV Monitoring

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Overview

Datadog Real User Monitoring (RUM) enables you to visualize and analyze the real-time performance and user journeys of your application’s individual users.

The Datadog Android SDK supports Android 5.0+ (API level 21) and Android TV. It works for Android apps written using Java or Kotlin.

Start monitoring Android applications

To get started with RUM for Android, create an application and configure the Android SDK.

This section includes the following topics:

Setup: Learn how to set up the Android SDK, track background events, and send data when devices are offline.

Crash Reporting: Add ANR detection and crash reporting, get deobfuscated stack traces, then test your implementation.

Monitoring App Performance: Monitor view timings to understand your app's performance from a user's perspective.

Advanced Configuration: Enrich user sessions, manage events and data, track custom global attributes and widgets, review initialization parameters, modify or drop RUM events, and more.

Data Collected: Review data that the Android SDK collects.

Mobile Vitals: View mobile vitals, which help compute insights about your mobile application.

Web View Tracking: Monitor web views and eliminate blind spots in your mobile applications.

Integrated Libraries: Import integrated libraries for your Android and Android TV applications.

Troubleshooting: Common troubleshooting Android SDK issues.