# Digital Experience Monitoring with Grafana Cloud: Session Replay, synthetic checks, and faster investigations

DevFeed: [Digital Experience Monitoring with Grafana Cloud: Session Replay, synthetic checks, and faster investigations](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/digital-experience-monitoring-with-grafana-cloud-session-replay-synthetic-checks-and-faster-investigations-21514.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://grafana.com/blog/digital-experience-monitoring-with-grafana-cloud-session-replay-synthetic-checks-and-faster-investigations/>)

Author: Bukola Ayodele

Published: 2026-09-15T01:35:30.954353Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Grafana Labs blog on Grafana Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/grafana-labs-blog-on-grafana-labs.md>)

Topics: [digital experience monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/digital-experience-monitoring.md>), [Grafana Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana-cloud.md>), [Frontend observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend-observability.md>), [synthetic monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/synthetic-monitoring.md>), [real user monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-user-monitoring.md>), [session replay](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/session-replay.md>), [Instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/instrumentation.md>), [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Core Web Vitals](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/core-web-vitals.md>), [Traces](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/traces.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [core-web-vitals](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/core-web-vitals.md>), [digital-experience-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital-experience-monitoring.md>), [frontend-observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend-observability.md>), [grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana.md>), [grafana-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana-cloud.md>), [grafana-cloud-frontend-observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana-cloud-frontend-observability.md>), [instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instrumentation.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [logs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logs.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [real-user-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-user-monitoring.md>), [session-replay](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/session-replay.md>), [synthetic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/synthetic.md>), [synthetic-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/synthetic-monitoring.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>), [web-applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-applications.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how Digital Experience Monitoring in Grafana Cloud combines Frontend Observability, Synthetic Monitoring, real user monitoring, and session replay. It shows how these capabilities help engineering teams detect issues proactively, understand their scope and root causes, correlate frontend signals with backend traces, and resolve production problems faster.

## Source excerpt

When something breaks in production, the questions that matter most are also the toughest to answer from metrics alone: who was affected, what did they actually see, and is this worth waking someone up for? Answering those questions requires a fuller picture of the issue and its impact on your users. That's where Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) in Grafana Cloud comes in. By combining Frontend Observability and Synthetic Monitoring, DEM connects real user experiences with proactive testing, helping engineering teams understand the scope of an issue, investigate its cause, and resolve it faster, all within Grafana Cloud. In this blog post, we'll walk through some of the latest DEM updates in Grafana Cloud, and how to get started. You can also learn more by watching the video below. First, what is Digital Experience Monitoring? Digital Experience Monitoring in Grafana Cloud gives you a complete picture of how users experience your web applications, from real user data to proactive synthetic checks. DEM helps your team achieve: Real user visibility: know how users truly experience your web application, not just what your backend metrics suggest. Proactive detection: catch problems before your users do, using automated checks against your critical user journeys. End-to-end correlation: connect a frontend signal to the backend trace behind it. Faster resolution: cut your mean time to recovery from hours to minutes. Session Replay: see exactly what your users saw Session Replay in Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability lets you visually replay what a user saw and did inside your web application. Your team can watch exactly what users experienced and correlate it with real user monitoring signals like Core Web Vitals, user actions, and traces, which makes it a powerful tool for investigating bugs and running root cause analysis. Session Replay is powered by Faro, Grafana's open source JavaScript instrumentation library for collecting real user monitoring data. Let's walk