Configure Monitoring for Vue.js

⚙️ Configuring Monitoring for User Experience in Vue.js Applications with GermainUX

Configure how GermainUX monitors, analyzes, and alerts on user experience, performance, errors, network activity, and business workflows in your Vue.js application.

1️⃣ Open the UX Monitoring Profile

Go to:

Germain Workspace > Left Menu > Analytics > UX Monitoring Profiles

Select the UX Monitoring Profile created for the Vue.js application.

The UX Monitoring Profile controls the applicable Real User Monitoring and Session Replay behavior.

📈 2. Configure Real User Monitoring

Configure the browser telemetry required for your monitoring objectives.

Depending on the monitoring configuration, GermainUX can collect:

Item

1

User sessions

2

Navigation

3

User interactions

4

Clicks

5

Page performance

6

Browser performance

7

JavaScript errors

8

Network requests

9

HTTP errors

10

Customer-defined events

Enable only the monitoring required for your use cases.

🎥 3. Configure Session Replay

Configure Session Replay for the selected UX Monitoring Profile.

Depending on your GermainUX version, settings can include:

Setting

Session Replay enabled or disabled

Session timeout

Maximum recording duration

Session behavior when username changes

Privacy exclusions

IP exclusions

Included IP ranges

Excluded usernames

Headless-browser exclusion

Validate Session Replay after making configuration changes.

🔒 4. Configure Privacy and Data Exclusions

Review the data collected from the Vue.js application.

Depending on your security, privacy, and regulatory requirements, data can be:

Action

Excluded

Masked

Anonymized

Encrypted

Configure appropriate protection for:

Data Type

Personal information

Form values

Authentication fields

Account information

Payment-related information

Customer-defined sensitive fields

Collect only the information required for the monitoring use case.

👤 5. Configure User Identification

When appropriate and authorized, configure the identifiers required to associate monitored activity with application users.

Depending on what the Vue.js application exposes, these can include:

Identifier

User ID

Username

Customer ID

Employee ID

Session identifier

Customer-defined identifier

Avoid collecting unnecessary personally identifiable information.

🖱️ 6. Configure Click Monitoring

GermainUX RUM JS can detect several types of user clicks, including:

Click Type

Standard clicks

Dead clicks

Error clicks

Rage clicks

Use these signals to identify:

Signal

Controls that do not respond

Interactions that generate JavaScript errors

Repeated user attempts

User frustration

Analyze click behavior together with Session Replay and other technical telemetry.

⏱️ 7. Configure Performance Monitoring

Configure the performance metrics relevant to the Vue.js application.

Examples include:

Metric

Page-load time

User interaction time

Browser processing time

Rendering time

Network-request duration

API response time

Performance thresholds should reflect expected application behavior.

warning 8. Configure JavaScript Error Monitoring

Monitor conditions such as:

Condition

JavaScript errors

Console errors

Error clicks

Resource-loading failures

Failed network requests

Use errors together with user/session information to determine:

Question

Who was affected

What action triggered the error

Which page or component was involved

Whether the issue affected a business workflow

📡 9. Configure Network Monitoring

Configure analysis of network requests generated by the application.

Depending on the available data, analyze:

Attribute

Request URL

Request duration

Response time

HTTP status

Failed requests

API endpoint

Third-party service

User interaction associated with the request

Avoid capturing sensitive request or response content unless explicitly required and approved.

🏗️ 10. Configure Vue Component Analysis

When the required instrumentation is available, configure monitoring for important Vue components.

Focus on components that:

Focus

Are business critical

Render frequently

Are performance sensitive

Have known user-experience issues

Analyze component behavior together with:

Aspect

Rendering performance

User interactions

Errors

Network requests

🔍 11. Configure JS Profiler — Optional

When GermainUX JS Profiler is deployed, configure deeper JavaScript analysis for selected workflows or application areas.

Use profiling to investigate:

Investigate

Slow JavaScript execution

Slow functions

Browser processing

Rendering bottlenecks

Network activity

Integration activity

Use profiling selectively when deeper technical detail is required.

💼 12. Configure Business Workflows

Define important user and business processes.

Examples include:

👥 Customer Registration

Open Registration → Enter Details → Submit → Confirmation

📞 Service Request

Search Customer → Open Account → Create Request → Submit

🛒 eCommerce

Product → Add to Cart → Checkout → Purchase

For each workflow, define:

Element

Start

Important milestones

Completion

Failure

Abandonment

GermainUX can then analyze:

Metric

Completion rate

Duration

Abandonment

Repeated steps

Errors

Friction

Performance delays

🤖 13. Configure Synthetic Monitoring — Optional

Use GermainUX RPA Bot Recorder for critical Vue.js workflows.

Configure:

Item

Scenario

Monitoring location

Schedule

Timeout

Expected result

Failure conditions

Alerting

Use test accounts and safe scenarios.

🔗 14. Configure Backend Correlation — Optional

When GermainUX also monitors backend systems, configure the identifiers or timing relationships required to correlate frontend activity with:

Backend

REST APIs

Application servers

Databases

Logs

Infrastructure

Integrations

This can help determine whether an issue originates in:

Browser → Network → API → Backend → Database

🎯 15. Configure KPIs

Configure KPIs relevant to your Vue.js monitoring use cases.

Typical areas include:

KPI Area

User Session

User Interaction

Page Performance

JavaScript Error

HTTP Request

Workflow

Synthetic Transaction

Use the KPIs available for your GermainUX version and monitoring configuration.

🧮 16. Configure Measures

Measures can include:

Measure

User count

Session count

Interaction count

Click count

Error count

Error rate

Page-load time

Interaction time

Network-request duration

Workflow duration

Completion rate

Abandonment rate

📊 17. Configure Analysis Dimensions

Analyze Vue.js activity by:

Dimension

Application

Environment

User

Session

Page

URL

Vue component

Interaction

Browser

Browser version

Device

Operating system

Geography

Error

API

Workflow

Time period

✅ 18. Configure SLAs

Configure thresholds for conditions requiring attention.

Examples include:

Page Performance

Page Load Time > Threshold

Interaction Performance

Interaction Response Time > Threshold

JavaScript

JavaScript Error Rate > Threshold

Network

API Response Time > Threshold

Workflow

Workflow Completion Rate < Expected Threshold

Synthetic Monitoring

Critical Scenario = Failed

Use thresholds appropriate for the application's expected behavior.

🤖 19. Configure Rules and Automated Analysis

Use GermainUX Rules for more advanced conditions.

Examples:

Slow Interaction + Slow API Request

JavaScript Error + Workflow Abandonment

Rage Click + No Navigation

Error Click + JavaScript Exception

Performance Degradation + Increased User Abandonment

Rules can combine technical and user-experience signals to identify higher-impact problems.

🔔 20. Configure Alerts and Watches

Configure notifications for conditions requiring attention.

Examples:

JavaScript Error Rate Above Threshold → Alert Engineering

Critical Workflow Failure → Notify Application Team

Slow API + Affected Users → Notify Development and API Teams

Synthetic Transaction Failure → Alert Operations

GermainUX can trigger:

Action

Alerts

Watches

Reports

Approved diagnostics

Approved automation

🖥️ 21. Configure Dashboards

Create dashboards according to the monitoring objective.

👥 User Experience

Monitor:

Item

Users

Sessions

Interactions

Dead clicks

Rage clicks

Error clicks

Session Replay

Workflow friction

🚤 Application Performance

Monitor:

Item

Page performance

Interaction performance

Rendering

JavaScript errors

Network requests

🔧 Engineering

Monitor:

Item

JavaScript errors

JS Profiler data

Slow functions

API performance

Failed requests

Browser-specific problems

💰 Business Workflows

Monitor:

Item

Workflow completion

Duration

Abandonment

Errors

User friction

Business outcomes

✅ 22. Validate the Configuration

Perform representative activity in the Vue.js application and confirm:

  1. Sessions are created.

  2. Navigation is captured.

  3. User interactions are captured.

  4. Click monitoring behaves as expected.

  5. Performance data is available.

  6. JavaScript errors are detected.

  7. Network requests are captured as configured.

  8. Session Replay works when enabled.

  9. Sensitive data is protected.

  10. Workflows are reconstructed correctly.

  11. JS Profiler works when enabled.

  12. Synthetic transactions execute correctly.

  13. SLAs evaluate correctly.

  14. Alerts and Watches operate as expected.

🔧 Troubleshooting

🚫 No User Monitoring Data

Verify:

Check

RUM JS is installed.

The application URL matches the UX Monitoring Profile.

RUM JS initializes successfully.

Browser requests to GermainUX are not blocked.

The test user or IP address is not excluded.

🎞️ Session Replay Is Missing

Verify:

Check

Session Replay is enabled globally.

Session Replay is enabled for the profile.

User/IP exclusion rules are correct.

Headless-browser exclusion is not affecting the test.

Monitoring data reaches GermainUX.

🐛 JavaScript Errors Are Missing

Verify:

Check

RUM JS is active.

The error occurs in the monitored browser context.

Error monitoring is enabled.

Privacy or filtering rules do not suppress the event.

🌐 Network Requests Are Missing

Verify:

Check

RUM JS is active.

The request originates in an accessible browser context.

Network monitoring is enabled.

Filtering rules are not excluding the request.

📋 Workflow Is Incomplete

Verify:

Check

Required workflow events are being collected.

Start and completion conditions are correctly defined.

Intermediate milestones correspond to the current Vue.js implementation.

Application changes have not altered event or route identifiers.

ℹ️ Get More Information

GermainUX can help determine which monitoring, analytics and automation capabilities are appropriate for your Vue environment.

Contact GermainUX Support.

Feature Availability: 2017.2