@grot I have heard about RUM, what’s that and what’s its connection to Faro?
Real User Monitoring (RUM) is a technique used to collect data about how real users interact with a web application. It involves capturing performance metrics, errors, logs, and user interactions directly from the user's browser. This data provides insights into the actual user experience, helping developers understand how their applications perform in real-world conditions and identify areas for improvement.
Grafana Faro is closely connected to RUM as it is an open source project designed specifically for frontend application observability. It includes a highly configurable web SDK that can be embedded in web applications to collect RUM data. This data includes performance metrics, logs, exceptions, events, and traces, which are crucial for monitoring web application performance, discovering frontend errors, and tracking user behavior.
Faro allows you to correlate frontend telemetry with backend and infrastructure data, providing a seamless, full-stack observability solution. It integrates with the Grafana LGTM stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics) to offer comprehensive insights into both frontend and backend performance.
In summary, RUM is the practice of monitoring real user interactions, and Grafana Faro is a tool that facilitates this by providing the necessary instrumentation and integration capabilities to collect and analyze RUM data effectively.
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