Overview
To get started with Datadog RUM Browser, you need to follow these key steps:
- Create an application in Datadog.
- Instrument your application.
Simplify your setup! Install the SDK and instrument your application in one step with
Auto-Instrumentation.
Instrumenting your application allows observability data from your application to be displayed in the Datadog UI.
Instrumentation types
There are two main approaches to instrument your application: automatic or custom instrumentation.
Auto-instrumentation
Try the Auto-Instrumentation Preview!
You can set RUM configs on your web servers and Datadog will automatically inject RUM configs to instrument your RUM applications. Learn more about Auto-Instrumentation.
Automatically add RUM JS to your web app HTML with minimal steps by installing the RUM injector by downloading the RUM Installer or by CLI (running a command).
SRE and engineering teams without access to frontend code or teams who need to manage all observability needs centrally may find this useful for:
- Unlocking performance data across all applications upon setting up RUM
- Start holistically monitoring application performance across the organization
To learn more, see auto-instrumentation.
Client-side (manual instrumentation)
Add the RUM SDK manually to your application code.
Frontend engineering, mobile engineering, or product teams with access to frontend code may find this method useful for:
- Daily engineering needs (live support, troubleshooting, downstream services health checks, and so on)
- Product needs (user flow analysis, user segmentation, feature flag tracking, and so on)
- Capturing observability from in-house code or complex functions that aren’t captured by automatic instrumentation
To learn more, see client-side instrumentation.
Further reading
Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:
