# Measuring Realtime Database performance with Firebase Performance Monitoring

DevFeed: [Measuring Realtime Database performance with Firebase Performance Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/measuring-realtime-database-performance-with-firebase-performance-monitoring-16380.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://firebase.blog/posts/2021/03/rtdb-performance-monitoring>)

Author: Sam Stern

Published: 2021-03-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Firebase Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/firebase-blog.md>)

Topics: [Firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firebase.md>), [Realtime Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/realtime-database.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [real user monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-user-monitoring.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [SDK](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdk.md>), [WebSocket](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/websocket.md>), [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>)

Tags: [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [database-performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database-performance.md>), [firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firebase.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [performance-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance-monitoring.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [real-user-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-user-monitoring.md>), [realtime](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/realtime.md>), [realtime-database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/realtime-database.md>), [tutorials](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorials.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>), [websocket](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/websocket.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to measure Realtime Database performance with Firebase Performance Monitoring. It uses custom traces to measure database operations over the long-running WebSocket connection and examines how latency varies by user geography.

## Source excerpt

News, tutorials, and updates from the Firebase team.