Optimize your frontend monitoring strategy with Datadog Synthetic Monitoring and RUM

Testing is crucial to ensure an optimized user experience (UX) in applications. Combining observability data from real-user monitoring (RUM) and synthetic monitoring provides full visibility into end-user experiences, enabling users to analyze UX from actual and optimal conditions. Datadog allows users to view key performance metrics for RUM and Synthetic Monitoring sessions side-by-side, providing insights into frontend experience data from both test and real-user sessions. This helps identify the source of issues quickly and deliver a reliable end-user experience. By analyzing real-user session data from RUM, users can gain better insight into which user journeys to examine and create useful, relevant tests. Combining RUM and Synthetic Monitoring provides complete visibility into user journeys, enabling users to optimize their app and delight customers.