Real User Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch RUM and Amazon Managed Grafana
AWS Cloud Operations Blog
This article discusses how to leverage Amazon CloudWatch Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Amazon Managed Grafana to monitor web application performance and user experience.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Setting up the AWS Bookstore Demo application
- Configuring Amazon CloudWatch RUM to collect user behavior data
- Setting up an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace and connecting it to CloudWatch as a data source
- Visualizing RUM metrics like page load times, errors, and user flows in Grafana dashboards
- Using the combined insights from CloudWatch RUM and Grafana to analyze and optimize application performance and user experience
- Cleanup steps to remove the resources created during the tutorial
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