New Relic Browser provides deep visibility and insight into how your users are interacting with your application or website. New Relic Browser measures page load timing, also known as real user monitoring (RUM), but it goes far beyond that to measure:
- Individual session performance
- AJAX requests
- SPA-architecture route changes
- JavaScript errors
With this added functionality, New Relic extends real user monitoring to include the entire life cycle of a page or a view. And with access to New Relic Insights, you can gather and visualize your browser data, then analyze what that data says about your business.
If you're ready to get started with browser monitoring, see Install Browser.
Full life cycle monitoring
Many websites contain dynamic content that is loaded after the initial page has finished loading, and complex JavaScript code increases the need for error reporting. After you install New Relic Browser, you get visibility into your users' entire experience, from the front end of your app to its backend performance. You can also see the individual interactions within user's webpage session (up to ten minutes).
Expanding far beyond legacy real user monitoring solutions, New Relic Browser monitors full page life cycle data, well beyond the initial page load. The UI also shows events throughout the individual user's session, allowing you to pinpoint problem areas and easily identify solutions.
For each end user page load, New Relic captures:
- Time spent in the front end (browser)
- Time spent in the back end (network and web app)
- Geographic origin
- Browser type and version, and operating system
For customers monitoring single-page application (SPA) architectures, New Relic captures route change data and associated AJAX requests.
Browser presents app data in charts, maps, and tables. You can view the data globally across all users and see it sliced and diced by webpage, browser, user session, and location. In addition, New Relic Browser enhances New Relic's original real user monitoring (RUM) feature with expanded functionality, detailed charts, and focused data.
Feature comparison
New Relic Browser includes standard features for all subscription levels. With a New Relic Browser Pro subscription, you can capitalize on additional, enhanced features.
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Your website's performance at a glance |
For both Lite and Pro subscriptions, the Overview summary charts show:
In addition, Pro subscriptions include charts with:
Links from the Overview page allow you to explore even deeper levels. |
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Timeline of page load and user interaction events during a webpage's full life cycle |
This detailed and intuitive visualization of all events in the user's session can help pinpoint problem areas and easily identify solutions. The Session traces page provides:
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Time-consuming or failing AJAX calls affecting webpage performance |
The AJAX page helps identify page load timing problems from the users' experience when you have time-consuming AJAX calls to update parts of the webpage. Chart data includes:
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Browser errors in production over time |
To help identify problems you may not have tested for, or problems your users are experiencing that you may not have easily seen, the JS errors page shows:
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Insights into your site's popularity |
Drill down into detailed information about:
In addition, use New Relic's comparative charting feature for a direct page load time comparison between real user (Browser) interactions and trends appearing in New Relic Synthetics monitors. |
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Monitoring for single-page app (SPA) architectures |
When SPA monitoring is enabled, Browser's Page views page shows you:
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Webpage performance by location |
Color-coded Apdex scores and other data show your end users' experience around the world or in a specific region or state. In addition, Pro users can use the enhanced Filterable geography page to:
The Pro subscription level of visual detail is especially useful for professionals in IT and Operations to make business decisions about peering agreements and CDN usage. |
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Problem patterns by browser type or platform |
Explore your end users' experience with your app segmented by the browser they use, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Apple Safari. You can drill down to view:
This helps you quickly determine whether problems with page load timing may be related to a specific browser type or platform, or whether the problem is more widespread. |
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UI options for browser monitoring |
Turn the New Relic Browser product on or off, including the option to enable or disable specific features. For example, you can:
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Access to Insights features |
With access to New Relic Insights, you get access to powerful features for the default Browser event data, including:
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See complete request paths |
With access to New Relic distributed tracing, you can see the connection between front-end activity and back-end activity. You can see across a full transaction, from browser activity, to time spent in network, to back-end activity. |
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