Chapter 3: Instrument user interfaces

Configure your user interfaces to send data to Splunk Observability Cloud.

You can instrument your user interfaces to send user session data to Splunk RUM. Splunk RUM has several tools that help you monitor the health and behavior of your applications.

The RUM application summary dashboard in Splunk Observability Cloud shows charts and visualizations with details about your web applications.

Instrument user interfaces to send user sessions

You can set up Splunk RUM for browser or mobile applications. Follow the setup guide to get started: Set up Splunk RUM for mobile and browser applications.

Use Splunk RUM to view your front-end application data

You can instrument browser and mobile user interfaces to monitor front-end application user experiences, sending your user sessions to RUM to review key metrics and vitals, as well as investigate errors in your spans:

This screenshot shows an example of the Splunk RUM landing page

To use Splunk RUM to view your application data, see Splunk RUM built-in dashboards.