Splunk RUM
1. RUM Dashboard
In Splunk Observability Cloud from the main menu, click on RUM. you arrive at the RUM Home page, this view has already been covered in the short introduction earlier.
Exercise
Filter RUM to your workshop
- Make sure you select your workshop by ensuring the drop-downs are set/selected as follows:
- The Time frame is set to -15m.
- The Environment selected is [NAME OF WORKSHOP]-workshop.
- The App selected is [NAME OF WORKSHOP]-store.
- The Source is set to All.
- Next, click on the [NAME OF WORKSHOP]-store above the Page Views / JavaScript Errors chart.
- This will bring up a new dashboard view breaking down the metrics by UX Metrics, Front-end Health, Back-end Health and Custom Events and comparing them to historic metrics (1 hour by default).
- UX Metrics: Page Views, Page Load and Web Vitals metrics.
- Front-end Health: Breakdown of Javascript Errors and Long Task duration and count.
- Back-end Health: Network Errors and Requests and Time to First Byte.
- Custom Events: RED metrics (Rate, Error & Duration) for custom events.
Exercise
Explore the RUM tabs
- Click through each of the tabs (UX Metrics, Front-end Health, Back-end Health and Custom Events) and examine the data.
If you examine the charts in the Custom Events Tab, what chart shows clearly the latency Spikes?
It is the Custom Event Latency chart