Why Frontend Monitoring Matters: Core Web Vitals, Error Tracking and Privacy

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Frontend monitoring tracks how an application performs in real users' browsers, catching problems that backend metrics miss, such as frozen screens and silent failures on mid-range devices. It covers three disciplines: performance measured through Google's Core Web Vitals, error tracking of client-side exceptions, and session replay for debugging user behavior. The article argues this visibility protects revenue and search rankings, since Google assesses real-user data at the 75th percentile. It also cites a Supabase case where a flood of noisy error events hid a real outage, showing the value of filtering alerts. Finally, it warns that session replay must be privacy-configured before deployment to avoid liability.

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