Dynamic

End User Monitoring vs Infrastructure Monitoring

Developers should learn and use End User Monitoring to ensure their applications deliver optimal performance and reliability to end users, which directly impacts business metrics like conversion rates and customer retention meets developers should learn infrastructure monitoring to build resilient, scalable applications and participate in devops/sre practices. Here's our take.

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End User Monitoring

Developers should learn and use End User Monitoring to ensure their applications deliver optimal performance and reliability to end users, which directly impacts business metrics like conversion rates and customer retention

End User Monitoring

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Developers should learn and use End User Monitoring to ensure their applications deliver optimal performance and reliability to end users, which directly impacts business metrics like conversion rates and customer retention

Pros

  • +It is particularly crucial for web and mobile applications where user experience is critical, as it helps identify performance bottlenecks, errors, and usability issues that synthetic monitoring or server-side metrics might miss
  • +Related to: application-performance-monitoring, synthetic-monitoring

Cons

  • -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

Infrastructure Monitoring

Developers should learn infrastructure monitoring to build resilient, scalable applications and participate in DevOps/SRE practices

Pros

  • +It's essential for troubleshooting production issues, capacity planning, and ensuring high availability in microservices or cloud-native architectures
  • +Related to: observability, apm-application-performance-monitoring

Cons

  • -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

The Verdict

Use End User Monitoring if: You want it is particularly crucial for web and mobile applications where user experience is critical, as it helps identify performance bottlenecks, errors, and usability issues that synthetic monitoring or server-side metrics might miss and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.

Use Infrastructure Monitoring if: You prioritize it's essential for troubleshooting production issues, capacity planning, and ensuring high availability in microservices or cloud-native architectures over what End User Monitoring offers.

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The Bottom Line
End User Monitoring wins

Developers should learn and use End User Monitoring to ensure their applications deliver optimal performance and reliability to end users, which directly impacts business metrics like conversion rates and customer retention

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