Server Monitoring vs End User Monitoring

Developers should learn server monitoring to ensure application stability, performance optimization, and rapid incident response in production environments meets 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. Here's our take.

Server Monitoring

Nice Pick

Developers should learn server monitoring to ensure application stability, performance optimization, and rapid incident response in production environments

Pros

• It is essential for DevOps, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), and backend roles where maintaining uptime and meeting SLAs (Service Level Agreements) is critical
• Related to: devops, site-reliability-engineering

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

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

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

The Verdict

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

The Bottom Line

Server Monitoring wins

Based on overall popularity. Server Monitoring is more widely used, but End User Monitoring excels in its own space.