Have you heard of Grafana Faro and how it can help in providing insights into your real user experience? Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Marie Cruz chat with Software Engineers Kostas Pelelis and Marco Schaefer to discuss what Grafana Faro is, why it's important to have a real user monitoring solution, and how to get started with Grafana Faro.

📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS
Open positions at Grafana Labs: https://grafana.com/about/careers/open-positions/
Grafana 10.2 release: https://grafana.com/blog/2023/10/24/grafana-10.2-release-grafana-panel-title-generator-interactive-visualizations-and-more/
k6 0.47.0 release: https://grafana.com/blog/2023/10/19/new-in-grafana-k6-the-latest-oss-features-in-v0.47.0-and-more-efficient-performance-testing-in-grafana-cloud-k6/

💡 GET STARTED WITH GRAFANA FARO
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/frontend-observability/
https://github.com/grafana/faro-web-sdk

⏰ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction

02:00 Announcements

07:02 What is Grafana Faro?

12:00 Why is it important to do real-user monitoring?

13:50 Key differences between real-user monitoring and.synthetic monitoring

17:44 Question: Is Faro included in Grafana Cloud?

19:03 Limitations of only relying on synthetic monitoring

21:03 What data does Grafana Faro collect?

25:17 Question: Does Grafana Faro track errors from third-party scripts?

26:32 Question: Does Grafana Faro collect information from all users or a sample of users?

27:44 Question: Where does Grafana Faro store all the data?

32:01 Grafana Faro architecture

35:15 Differences between Grafana Faro Web SDK and Grafana Frontend Observability product?

42:38 Demo of Frontend Observability product in Grafana Cloud

49:27 Question: If users are using k6 browser, should they still use Grafana Faro?

54:57 Future integrations between k6 browser and Grafana Faro

58:48 Possible integrations between Pyroscope and Grafana Faro
1:02:57 Additional links if people want to get started with Grafana Faro Web SDK and Grafana Frontend Observability product

Contact Nicole:
Mastodon: https://pkm.social/@nicole
GitHub: https://github.com/nicolevanderhoeven
Site: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com

Contact Marie:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcruzdrake
Site: https://www.testingwithmarie.com/

Contact Marco:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-schaefer-a13b03184/

Contact Kostas:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kpelelis/

Learn more about Grafana Labs:
Website: https://grafana.com
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/grafana