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Instrumentation-specific data for Browser RUM πŸ”—

Splunk RUM for Browser collects the following data through automatic instrumentations. To activate or deactivate instrumentations, see Instrumentation settings.

Document load πŸ”—

The document instrumentation produces spans about resources that load by the time the Window:load event fires. The root span generated is documentLoad. β€œThe parentID for the documentFetch and resourceFetch spans is documentLoad.id.

If the page load request has a Server-Timing header, RUM uses the data to link the documentFetch span to the corresponding back-end span. The Browser RUM agent also collects resources such as script, link, css - font, iframe, XHR/fetch, img, favicon and manifest.json, and links them to APM traces if the Server-Timing header is present.

documentLoad πŸ”—

The Browser RUM agent collects the following data using the documentLoad instrumentation:

Name

Type

Description

document.referrer

String

URI of the referral page. For example, https://subdomain.example.com.

screen.xy

String

Width and height of the display. For example, 2560x1440.

The following annotations are collected from the navigation timings, as specified by the W3C specification for the PerformanceNavigationTiming interface:

Name

Timestamp

fetchStart

Immediately before the browser starts fetching the resource.

unloadEventStart

Immediately before the user agent starts the unload event of the previous document.

unloadEventEnd

Immediately after the user agent finishes the unload event of the previous document.

domInteractive

Immediately before the user agent sets the readiness of the current document to Interactive.

domContentLoadedEventStart

Immediately before the user agent fires the DOMContentLoaded event at the current document.

domContentLoadedEventEnd

Immediately after the DOMContentLoaded event of the current document completes.

domComplete

Immediately before the browser sets the readiness of the current document to Complete.

loadEventStart

Immediately before the load event of the current document is fired.

loadEventEnd

When the load event of the current document is completed.

This diagram shows the sequence of events in documentLoad.

This image shows a diagram of the documentLoad proccess.

documentFetch πŸ”—

The Browser RUM agent collects the following data using the documentFetch instrumentation:

Name

Type

Description

http.response_content_length

Number

The size of the document received from the payload body.

link.traceId

String

Trace identifier, collected from the Server-Timing response header set by the APM agent.

link.spanId

String

Span identifier, collected from the Server-Timing response header set by the APM agent.

resourceFetch πŸ”—

The Browser RUM agent collects the following data using the resourceFetch instrumentation:

Name

Type

Description

http.response_content_length

Number

The size of the document received from the payload body.

http.url

String

URL of the requested resource.

link.traceId

String

Trace identifier, collected from Server-Timing response header set by the APM agent.

link.spanId

String

Span identifier, collected from Server-Timing response header set by the APM agent.

Note

Safari 10.1 doesn’t support resourceFetch spans.

XHR and Fetch instrumentations πŸ”—

The xhr and fetch instrumentations collect XMLHttpRequest events and Fetch API events. Spans differ in the value of the component tag, which differentiates between xml-http-request and fetch.

This instrumentation prepends the HTTP method name to the name of the span. If the instrumentation maps to a back end providing a Server-Timing header in the response, the link with the back-end trace is also generated.

The Browser RUM agent collects the following data using the XHR and Fetch instrumentations:

  • http.method

  • http.response_content_length

  • http.host

  • http.scheme

  • http.status_code

  • http.status_text

  • http.user_agent

  • http.url

The XHR and Fetch instrumentations annotate the span with timestamps representing when the following events fire:

Event

Type

Description

open

Number

Time in UNIX epoch, measured in microseconds when the XHR open event fires.

send

Number

Time when the XHR send event fires.

load

Number

Time when the XHR load event fires.

"error"

Number

Time when the XHR "error" event fires.

timeout

Number

Time when the XHR timeout event fires.

abort

Number

Time when the XHR abort event fires.

Annotations collected by the XHR and Fetch instrumentations are described in Request timing annotations.

Web Vitals πŸ”—

The webvitals instrumentation collects data about Google Web Vitals metrics. The Browser RUM agent collects Web Vitals metrics as spans with zero duration. Every span has a designated traceId and no parent span.

The Browser RUM agent collects the following data using the webvitals instrumentation:

Name

Web Vital

Description

lcp

Largest Contentful Paint

Measures loading performance by capturing the render time of the largest image or text block visible within the viewport.

fid

First Input Delay

Measures interactivity by capturing the timestamp between user interactions to time when the browser can begin processing event handlers in response to that interaction.

cls

Cumulative Layout Shift

Measures visual stability by capturing the sum of all individual layout shift scores for every unexpected layout shift that occurs during the entire lifespan of the page. A layout shift occurs any time a visible element changes its position from one rendered frame to the next.

inp

Interaction to Next Paint

Measures responsiveness by observing the latency of all interactions a user has done on the page and reports the slowest value.

Resources after load πŸ”—

The postload instrumentation collects data about resources that load after a page load event. By default, the instrumentation activates instrumenting <script> and <img> resources. Typically, you might use the postload instrumentation to collect telemetry when loading images on scroll events.

Spans collected by the postload instrumentation match the data model described in resourceFetch.

User interactions πŸ”—

The interactions instrumentation collects telemetry data on interactions on elements that have a registered event listener of the type Element.addEventListener. Events collected by the listener generate a span with a name matching the DOM event name.

The Browser RUM agent collects the following data using the interactions instrumentation:

Name

Type

Description

event_type

String

Name of the event. For example, click.

target_element

String

Name of the target element. For example, BUTTON.

target_xpath

String

XPath of the target element.

Visibility πŸ”—

The visibility instrumentation collects visibilitychange events. Visibility changes that happen when a page refreshes aren’t recorded, as the browser tab might never go visible.

The Browser RUM agent collects the following data using the visibility instrumentation:

Name

Type

Description

hidden

Boolean

Whether the page is hidden or not.

Connectivity πŸ”—

The connectivity instrumentation collects offline and online events. The browser records offline events when the browser goes offline and is cached in memory until the browser goes online. Offline and online events are sent at the same time.

The Browser RUM agent collects the following data using the connectivity instrumentation:

Name

Type

Description

online

Boolean

Whether the browser went online or offline.

History API πŸ”—

The Browser RUM agent also instruments the History API to provide visibility into the session history of the browser. The History API tracks URL changes that don’t reload the page and is used in single-page applications.

The instrumentation also tracks URL changes that occur by changing the location.hash by listening to hashchange events. Route changes have no duration. The routeChange span contains the following tags:

Name

Type

Description

component

String

The value is always "user-interaction".

prev.href

String

Page URL prior to the route change.

location.href

String

Page URL after the route change.

Long tasks πŸ”—

The longtask instrumentation collects information about long tasks. The Browser RUM agent creates a span for every long task detected.

Span attributes include the containers where that task occurred. For tasks that don’t occur within the top level page, the containerId, containerName, and containerSrc fields provide information about the source of the task.

The Browser RUM agent collects the following data using the longtask instrumentation:

Name

Type

longtask.name

String

longtask.entry_type

Number

longtask.duration

Number

attribution.name

String

attribution.entry_type

String

attribution.start_time

Number

attribution.duration

Number

attribution.container_type

String

attribution.container_src

String

attribution.container_id

String

attribution.container_name

String

Websockets πŸ”—

The websockets instrumentation collects websocket lifecycle events and uses it to populate spans. The instrumentation collects spans from websocket connect, send, and onmessage events.

connect πŸ”—

The websockets instrumentation collects the following data from connect events:

Name

Type

Description

http.url

String

The Websocket URL.

duration

Number

Time lapsed between a websocket constructor call and the ws.open event firing.

protocols

String or array

Protocols passed to the websocket constructor.

error

String

The value can be true or false depending on whether an error occurred. Errors are collected during websocket construction or when an ws.error event fires.

error

String

Websocket error event message.

send and onmessage πŸ”—

The websockets instrumentation collects the following data from send and onmessage events:

Name

Type

Description

http.url

String

The Websocket URL.

response_content_length

Number

Payload size in bytes.

Socket.io messages πŸ”—

The Socket.io instrumentation generates spans from messages sent using the socket.io client library. Spans conform to the OpenTelemetry specifications on messaging systems. This instrumentation is deactivated by default.

When using the standalone socket.io build, activate the instrumentation by passing true to the configuration setting, as in the following snippet:

<script src="/location/to/splunk-otel-web.js"></script>
<script>
   SplunkRum.init({
      // ...
      instrumentations: {
         socketio: true
      }
   });
</script>
<script src="/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>

When using both the @splunk/otel-web and the socket.io-client npm packages in the same bundle, pass the socket.io client to the instrumentation using the target setting:

import SplunkOtelWeb from '@splunk/otel-web';
import { io } from 'socket.io-client';
SplunkRum.init({
// ...
   instrumentations: {
      socketio: {
         target: io,
      },
   },
});

When using the CDN distribution of Splunk RUM, activate the socket.io instrumentation and expose the io function as window.io, as in the following example:

<script src="/location/to/splunk-otel-web.js"></script>
<script>
SplunkRum.init({
   // ...
   instrumentations: {
      socketio: true
   }
});
</script>
<script src="/app.min.js"></script>

The content of the app.min.js file in the previous example is the following:

import { io } from 'socket.io-client';
window.io = io;
const socket = io();
// ...

You can use a different global variable name by specifying it as the target:

SplunkRum.init({
// ...
instrumentations: {
   socketio: {
      target: 'socketIoClient',
      },
   },
});
// Expose the io object in your bundle
window.socketIoClient = io;

Messages sent between socket.io clients and servers produce EVENT_NAME send spans when the messages go from client to server, and EVENT_NAME receive spans when the messages go from server to client. Both types of spans contain the following attributes:

Name

Type

Description

messaging.system

String

The value is always socket.io.

messaging.destination messaging.socket.io.namespace

String

The value of the socket.io namespace.

messaging.destination_kind

String

The value is always topic.

messaging.socket.io.event_name

String

Name of the event, the first argument of the emit or on function.

This page was last updated on Jan 17, 2024.