Instrumenting your React application with CloudWatch RUM

Charles Stover
2 min readDec 16, 2022
screenshot of the Amazon CloudWatch RUM homepage greeting

AWS’s long-awaited release of Real User Monitoring brings client-side web application data straight to your CloudWatch dashboard. With CI/CD tooling and availability monitors, in-browser metrics have become the final frontier for a fully-monitored, data-driven front end service.

As with all front end tooling, it’s ripe for extension. Amazon published an NPM package

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