From RUM to Front-End Observability with OpenTelemetry - Purvi Kanal, Honeycomb

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From RUM to Front-End Observability with OpenTelemetry - Purvi Kanal, Honeycomb

RUM tooling focuses on high level analytics and performance metrics, whereas front-end observability is focused on finding and fixing problems affecting users by sending telemetry that is tailored to your specific use case. As our browser applications have gotten much more complex over the last decade, our observability capabilities have not scaled at the same pace. This is where front-end observability closes the gap. In this talk, we’ll dive into how to use tracing with OpenTelemetry to start surfacing unknown-unknowns, whether you’re using React, Angular or {insert-frontend-framework-of-the-month}. We’ll take a look at how to connect browser requests with backend traces, best practices for performance monitoring, analytics, and mapping user journeys - all with real user data in only one tool. We’ll learn how to ship features and fix production issues with confidence, because we can’t improve what we can’t measure!