By monitoring user sessions, you can gain insights into user behavior, identifying patterns, and potential issues. They can reveal common paths users take through an app, and potential bottlenecks. Developers can then use this data to optimize the user experience.
You can track user sessions by using tools like Real User Monitoring solutions. These tools provide data on user interactions, enabling you to analyze session duration, page views, and other relevant metrics. For instance, by monitoring user sessions, you can identify pages where users tend to drop off, indicating potential usability issues.
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Observability
Observability is the ability to understand how your application is working and behaving in production through telemetry data (logs, metrics, traces, wide events, etc.). It enables you detect, diagnose and resolve issues in your app before they impact your users and become problems.
Real User Experience Monitoring (RUM)
Real User Experience Monitoring (RUM) is the process of tracking and analyzing how real users interact with an application or website in real-time.
Logging
Logging is the process of recording events, actions, or messages that occur within an application, typically for troubleshooting or analysis purposes.