Application Monitoring vs User Feedback Surveys

Developers should learn application monitoring to build more reliable and performant software, especially in production environments meets developers should learn and use user feedback surveys when building or iterating on software products to ensure user-centric development and validate assumptions with real data. Here's our take.

Application Monitoring

Nice Pick

Developers should learn application monitoring to build more reliable and performant software, especially in production environments

Pros

• It is crucial for modern distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud-native applications where issues can be complex and hard to debug
• Related to: observability, logging

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

User Feedback Surveys

Developers should learn and use User Feedback Surveys when building or iterating on software products to ensure user-centric development and validate assumptions with real data

Pros

• They are particularly valuable during the design phase to understand user needs, after feature releases to gauge adoption and satisfaction, and for ongoing product improvement to identify pain points and opportunities
• Related to: user-research, data-analysis

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

The Verdict

These tools serve different purposes. Application Monitoring is a concept while User Feedback Surveys is a methodology. We picked Application Monitoring based on overall popularity, but your choice depends on what you're building.

The Bottom Line

Application Monitoring wins

Based on overall popularity. Application Monitoring is more widely used, but User Feedback Surveys excels in its own space.