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Application Insights and RUM(Real User Monitoring)

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Monday, July 1, 2019 3:38 PM

Hi,

Does Application Insights support Real User Monitoring? 

Can someone point me to some article/documentation/blog that describes the Real User Monitoring capabilities of Application Insights? 

Thanks!

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Monday, July 1, 2019 10:10 PM

Hello, and thank you for using Application Insights!

RUM or Real User Monitoring records user interactions, which is one of the main focuses of Application Insights.  Although not called out as explicitly on the overview page you can read more about Application Insights RUM features here:

/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/app-insights-overview

What does Application Insights monitor?

Application Insights is aimed at the development team, to help you understand how your app is performing and how it's being used. It monitors:

  • Request rates, response times, and failure rates - Find out which pages are most popular, at what times of day, and where your users are. See which pages perform best. If your response times and failure rates go high when there are more requests, then perhaps you have a resourcing problem.
  • Page views and load performance - reported by your users' browsers.
  • User and session counts.
  • Custom events and metrics that you write yourself in the client or server code, to track business events such as items sold or games won.

/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/usage-overview

Usage analysis with Application Insights

Which features of your web or mobile app are most popular? Do your users achieve their goals with your app? Do they drop out at particular points, and do they return later? Azure Application Insights helps you gain powerful insights into how people use your app. Every time you update your app, you can assess how well it works for users. With this knowledge, you can make data driven decisions about your next development cycles.

I hope this helps!