Initial setup for web frontends

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Start your journey with the New RUM Experience using the foundational guides in this section, designed to help you achieve a working setup.

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To get started monitoring your web frontends with the New RUM Experience, follow the instructions below.

The New RUM Experience offers two approaches for instrumenting your web frontends: Automatic injection and agentless RUM.

Automatic injection

Automatic injection is the most convenient way to instrument your web frontends. To use it, the following prerequisites must be met:

If these conditions are met, we recommend using automatic injection.

If you have OneAgent installed and one of the used technologies supports automatic RUM injection, but you prefer to insert the RUM JavaScript manually, create an auto-injected frontend and then follow the instructions in Use manual insertion for pages of an auto-injected application.

Agentless RUM

If automatic injection isn’t feasible, use agentless RUM. This approach only requires access to the application’s code, not to the web server. To set up agentless RUM, you need to manually insert the RUM JavaScript into each page of your application.

Once you’ve chosen your instrumentation approach, follow the corresponding guide below to set up your frontend.

Depending on your application and environment, you may still need further configuration to achieve a working setup.

For details, refer to the following guides:

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