Jaeger: RUM (Real User Monitoring) ?
Does the Jaeger tracing ecosystem provide something like Elastic APM RUM ?
elgalu
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The page you linked has practically zero information about what exactly E-APM supports w.r.t. RUM. It sounds more like metrics.
yurishkuro
on 15 Jul 2020
Sorry, these provide better info:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/rum-js/master/intro.html
https://www.elastic.co/blog/performing-real-user-monitoring-rum-with-elastic-apm
https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-rum-js
elgalu
on 15 Jul 2020
Thanks for the links. The blog still sounds pretty confusing as to what exactly they are trying to do. You can certainly get traces into Jaeger like the ones they showed, if you instrument your frontend application. Jaeger itself does not provide instrumentation (it's not in the scope of the project), but you can use OpenTelemetry which has good support for JS and is natively integrated with Jaeger. As far as user activity metrics, and dimensions like geo locations - that's not what Jaeger is built for, I would point you to Grafana and Prometheus.
yurishkuro
on 15 Jul 2020
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Thanks for the links. The blog still sounds pretty confusing as to what exactly they are trying to do. You can certainly get traces into Jaeger like the ones they showed, if you instrument your frontend application. Jaeger itself does not provide instrumentation (it's not in the scope of the project), but you can use OpenTelemetry which has good support for JS and is natively integrated with Jaeger. As far as user activity metrics, and dimensions like geo locations - that's not what Jaeger is built for, I would point you to Grafana and Prometheus.