External Monitoring vs Real User Monitoring
Developers should use external monitoring to ensure their applications are accessible and performant for users globally, especially for customer-facing web services, APIs, or cloud-based systems meets developers should use rum to understand how their applications perform for real users across different devices, locations, and network conditions. Here's our take.
External Monitoring
Developers should use external monitoring to ensure their applications are accessible and performant for users globally, especially for customer-facing web services, APIs, or cloud-based systems
External Monitoring
Nice PickDevelopers should use external monitoring to ensure their applications are accessible and performant for users globally, especially for customer-facing web services, APIs, or cloud-based systems
Pros
- +It is critical for detecting downtime, slow response times, or functional failures from a user's perspective, enabling proactive incident response and SLA compliance
- +Related to: application-performance-monitoring, infrastructure-monitoring
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
Real User Monitoring
Developers should use RUM to understand how their applications perform for real users across different devices, locations, and network conditions
Pros
- +It's essential for identifying performance bottlenecks, debugging production issues, and optimizing user experience based on actual usage patterns
- +Related to: application-performance-monitoring, synthetic-monitoring
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
Use External Monitoring if: You want it is critical for detecting downtime, slow response times, or functional failures from a user's perspective, enabling proactive incident response and sla compliance and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.
Use Real User Monitoring if: You prioritize it's essential for identifying performance bottlenecks, debugging production issues, and optimizing user experience based on actual usage patterns over what External Monitoring offers.
Developers should use external monitoring to ensure their applications are accessible and performant for users globally, especially for customer-facing web services, APIs, or cloud-based systems
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