Accelerate innovation with open source browser monitoring
Blog post from New Relic
New Relic has reinforced its commitment to open-source development by making its Browser agent for real user monitoring (RUM) open source, reflecting its mission to ease engineers' workloads. As a Platinum member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), New Relic continues to advance its open-source efforts. The Browser agent, now accessible on GitHub, offers comprehensive insights into application performance by tracking real user sessions, identifying issues like slow page loads and JavaScript errors, and measuring user satisfaction through metrics such as Google's Core Web Vitals. The agent also employs distributed tracing for a full-stack observability approach, enabling users to follow requests from browser activity through the network to backend processes. New Relic encourages contributions from the community through its Open Source site, providing resources like a Contributor’s Guide and a Beginner’s Guide to facilitate participation and innovation.