Splunk RUM

4. User Sessions

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Exercise Find the APM jump-off point
  • Close the RUM Session Replay by clicking on the X in the top right corner.
  • Note the length of the span, this is the time it took to complete the order, not good!
  • Scroll down the page and you will see the waterfall which shows the page objects that have been loaded (HTML, CSS, images, JavaScript etc.)
  • Keep scrolling down the page until you come to a blue APM link (the one with /cart/checkout at the end of the URL) and hover over it.

RUM Session

This brings up the APM Performance Summary. Having this end-to-end (RUM to APM) view is very useful when troubleshooting issues.

Exercise Jump from RUM to APM
  • You will see paymentservice and checkoutservice are in an error state as per the screenshot above.
  • Under Business Operation click on front-end:/cart, this will bring up the APM Service Map.

RUM to APM