Overview
Real user monitoring (RUM) service from Datadog. Captures front-end performance metrics, user sessions, errors, and resource timing. Provides session replay capabilities for debugging user experience issues.
Detection Capabilities
- Signature count
- 2
- Detection methods
- network
Performance Impact
Performance Impact
- Script size
- 45 KB
- Requests per page
- 2
Common Mistakes
- 1 Enabling session replay without configuring privacy masking for sensitive input fields
- 2 Not selecting EU data residency when processing EU user data, causing transfers to US data centres
- 3 Collecting full URL paths that may contain personal data such as user IDs or tokens
Compliance Considerations
Collects session data, performance metrics, user actions, and errors. Session replay functionality captures DOM snapshots. EU data residency available (Datadog EU site). The session replay feature raises similar concerns to session recording — ensure sensitive form fields are masked and consent is obtained for replay functionality.
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