#Shorts Tired of the new Google Analytics interface? Frustrated with building reports from scratch? Join me as I introduce Request Metrics, a game-changing analytics tool that provides ready-made answers without the headache of DIY reports. Say goodbye to the analytics struggle and hello to simplified data analysis.

It sucks right? It doesn't work the same way, and you don't have all your data. I'm working on a new way to bring together client-side analytics and monitoring.

Most of us need to answer the same questions: where is my traffic coming from? What devices and screen sizes do they use? Where do they go on my page? Why the hell do I have to build this myself Google?

We just released support for custom metadata in Request Metrics! Metadata allows you to describe your user, session, application, environment, account, A/B Test, or whatever else is meaningful for you. You can add metadata through the browser agent API, and report & filter on it in the Reporting UI.

Struggling to troubleshoot a slow website? Check out this live debugging session I did to locate the root cause of a poor Largest Contentful Paint problem.

Are you getting into something new? Starting a new project, or side hustle? Awesome, that's a big step! My best advice is to get real feedback from you system and actually look at it. Look at the logs, check your analytics. See what real people do. It makes all the difference in the world, there is a lot of phantom advice out there from people who are not actually your users.

4️⃣1️⃣7️⃣2️⃣ Remember back in the day when the "Visitor Counter" was the only analytics we had? 📖 A brief history of web monitoring and observability.

I've suffered the pain of enterprise APM logging tools. 😥The pain of install.😭The pain of custom reporting.😱The pain of data held hostage. It sucks. I've been working on a simpler way. What if? 😏 No code changes, just paste 1 agent on the client.😃 Reports were pre-built, simple, and focused on real problems.😍 Affordable with automatic scaling to fit teams of all sizes. That's what I'm building with Request Metrics. Come check it out.

Many devs struggle to build "temples of logs" 🏛️ - they think they need to answer every possible question. But you probably don't need it, because most systems fail in similar ways.

🤨 Does your team know how to share? Your analytics and monitoring data, specifically. A lot of folks don't, and their data is stuck in silos, like #analytics, #perfmonitoring, #observability, or #errorlogging. Developers are in the dark about what's important, what's broken, and what needs to be faster. 🚀