Sprint 66 brings a cool new feature that helps you get the most from your real user monitoring. You can now create and monitor your own custom user actions using a simple JavaScript API.
To create and monitor custom user actions:
- Update OneAgent to version 1.65x or greater.
- Go to Settings > Real user monitoring > Custom user actions.
- Click the Download JavaScript API button to download a small library, ruxitAPI.js.
- Add this library to your application’s pages.
- Use the API to add custom actions or to report back custom JavaScript errors.
Also included in the zip-file are samples and the API documentation. - Once enabled, you’ll see your custom user actions listed in the Top consumers list on each application page.
Sample use cases for the JavaScript API:
- Measure specific aspects of a page-rendering process or measure client-side only JavaScript executions. For example, you might want to know the time measure of a specific block with some JavaScript elements in it, like a header or menu.
- Change a default user action name that doesn’t meet you needs—use the API to give the action a different name.
- Explicitly measure the performance of specific third-party content providers or CDNs.
- Intentionally throw JavaScript application errors (with wrong input data, for example)
- Measure certain page actions that aren’t auto-detected by Dynatrace.
