Introduction to RUM & Session Replay

Welcome to the first video of our new series, Frontend Observability & Monitoring! In this video, we dive into Datadog Real User Monitoring and walk you through everything you need to get started.

Have any questions? Let us know in the comments! And be sure to check out our resources below.

00:00 - Introduction
00:58 - What is Real User Monitoring?
02:35 - Getting Started
03:46 - Privacy & Security at Datadog
04:34 - Instrumentation
06:41 - RUM Explorer
09:00 - Search Syntax
09:56 - Saving Queries to Dashboard
10:20 - Editing Dashboard Widgets
12:31 - RUM Out of the Box
15:35 - Performance Summary
16:50 - Performance Dashboard
17:29 - Errors Summary
18:12 - Errors Dashboard
20:47 - Deployments Summary
21:22 - Deployment Dashboard
23:08 - API Resources Summary
24:04 - API Resources Dashboard
26:44 - Feature Flags
27:37 - Error Tracking
28:58 - Session Replay
29:36 - Session Replay Playlists
30:33 - Session Replay Search Recordings
31:10 - Viewing a Session Replay
31:30 - Session Replay Dev Tools
33:05 - Conclusion


Getting Started
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...

Datadog Privacy & Security
https://www.datadoghq.com/privacy/

Instrumentation https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...

RUM Explorer
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...

RUM Explorer Search Syntax
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...

Dashboards
https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/
https://docs.datadoghq.com/getting_st...

Editing Dashboard Widgets
https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards...

Performance Dashboard https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...

Errors Dashboard
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...

Deployments Dashboard
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...

API Resources Dashboard
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...

Resource Timing and Metrics
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...

Feature Flags
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...

Error Tracking
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...

Session Replay
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...

Session Replay Playlists
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...

Session Replay Dev Tools
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...


Additional Resources


RUM Documentation
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...

Core Web Vitals
https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_...
https://web.dev/vitals/

Datadog Blog Posts about RUM
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/tag/re...

Datadog Learning Center Free UX Monitoring Courses
https://learn.datadoghq.com/collectio...