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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical to understand the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. What is real user monitoring? Real-time monitoring of user application and service interactions.

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Announcing bpftop: Streamlining eBPF performance optimization

The Netflix TechBlog

By Jose Fernandez Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of bpftop , a command-line tool designed to streamline the performance optimization and monitoring of eBPF applications. It displays the average execution runtime, events per second, and estimated total CPU % for each program.

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How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics

Smashing Magazine

How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. Different products will have different benchmarks and two apps may perform differently against the same metrics, but still rank quite similarly to our subjective “good” and “bad” verdicts.

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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives.

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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

However, as an internal benchmark, there are compelling reasons why some of you may actually want to keep tracking these ‘outdated’ metrics… Measure the User Experience The problem with using diagnostic metrics like Load or DOMContentLoaded to measure site-speed is that it has no bearing on how a user might actually experience your site.

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Monitor dynamic application workflows with placeholders and synthetic location context

Dynatrace

Synthetic clickpath monitors are a great way to automatically monitor and benchmark business-critical workflows 24/7. This is why we introduced JavaScript events to our Synthetic monitor scripts a couple of months ago. Synthetic Monitoring improvements for dynamic environments. Dynatrace news. Contact forms.

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New web performance insights with additional metrics and enhanced Visually complete for synthetic monitors

Dynatrace

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring allows you to proactively monitor the availability of your public as well as your internal web applications and API endpoints from locations around the globe or important internal locations such as branch offices. Synthetic monitors help you find issues before they affect your customers.

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