Automatically track native marks and measures

Marks and measures are standard browser APIs that help you observe and report on the performance of your webpages. These generic, native events allow you to measure the duration of any task or process in your application. With New Relic browser monitoring, you can now automatically track marks and measures and store them as BrowserPerformance events—giving you deeper visibility into your site's real-world performance.

Why use marks and measures monitoring?

Automatic tracking of marks and measures with New Relic provides actionable insights into the performance of your web applications. By capturing these events, you can:

• Pinpoint slow or problematic areas in your code.
• Measure the impact of new features or deployments.
• Compare performance across different user journeys.
• Build custom dashboards and alerts based on real user data.

Prerequisites

• A Pro or Pro + SPA browser agent, version 1.272.0 or higher.

Enable automatic collection

Enhance your application's observability and debugging capabilities by following these simple setup instructions.

Disable marks and measures collection

To disable marks and/or measures for an existing browser app:

Data consumption

BrowserPerformance events follow the same consumption pricing as your other browser bytes. The amount of bytes produced depends on the count and attributes of the data.

Once enabled, the agent will automatically capture marks and measures as they occur in your application.

Find your data in New Relic

Marks and measures data are stored as BrowserPerformance events in New Relic, denoted as either mark or measure under the entryType field. See the data dictionary for more information on the fields available for use with BrowserPerformance events. For a quick and useful dashboard, see this quickstart, otherwise you can query and visualize this data to gain insights into your application's performance.

Find the slowest measures by average duration

FROM BrowserPerformance 
SELECT average(entryDuration) 
WHERE entryType = 'measure' 
FACET entryName 
LIMIT 10 
ORDER BY average(entryDuration) DESC

Count the number of marks and measures per page

FROM BrowserPerformance 
SELECT count(*) 
WHERE entryType IN ('mark', 'measure') 
FACET pageUrl

See average measure duration by browser

FROM BrowserPerformance 
SELECT average(entryDuration) 
WHERE entryType = 'measure' 
FACET userAgentName

Track measure durations by country

FROM BrowserPerformance 
SELECT average(entryDuration) 
WHERE entryType = 'measure' 
FACET countryCode

Find all unique measure names recorded in the last 24 hours

FROM BrowserPerformance 
SELECT uniqueCount(entryName) 
WHERE entryType = 'measure' 
SINCE 24 hours ago

Compare measure durations for desktop vs. mobile

FROM BrowserPerformance 
SELECT average(entryDuration) 
WHERE entryType = 'measure' 
FACET deviceType

List all measures for a specific session

FROM BrowserPerformance 
SELECT * 
WHERE entryType = 'measure' 
AND session = 'abcdefghijklmnop'

Use these queries or create your own to build custom dashboards, set up alerts, and monitor the real-world performance of your web applications with precision.