Are They Really Using It? Monitoring Digital Experience To Determine Feature Effect
summary
Combines front-end telemetry and backend traces to turn anecdotes into numbers: installs Elastic RUM Agent and the Elastic RUM React extension (npm init, wrap react-router-dom v6), pairs that with OpenTelemetry on the backend, and supplements with Playwright synthetic checks to detect workflow regressions. Results show full front-to-back traces, per-step timings, page-load by region, error frequency, and even lingering Internet Explorer users, letting teams quantify adoption and locate real bottlenecks.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 1:09Problem with feature usage and performance
- 3:18Core web vitals limitations
- 4:25Synthetic monitoring explained
- 5:53Real user monitoring benefits
- 6:58Implementation with Elastic agent
- 8:45Debugging without proper monitoring
- 9:28Combining tracing for full visibility
- 10:30Ethical use of monitoring data
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