# digital experience monitoring Digital experience monitoring (DEM) is a software-based performance analysis and observability practice that tracks, discovers, and optimizes end-user experiences across digital applications, services, networks, and endpoints. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## 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]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Bukola Ayodele Published: 2026-09-15T01:35:30.954353Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Grafana Labs blog on Grafana Labs]() Topics: [digital experience monitoring](), [Grafana Cloud](), [Frontend observability](), [synthetic monitoring](), [real user monitoring](), [session replay](), [Instrumentation](), [web applications](), [JavaScript](), [Core Web Vitals](), [Traces]() Tags: [analytics](), [core-web-vitals](), [digital-experience-monitoring](), [frontend-observability](), [grafana](), [grafana-cloud](), [grafana-cloud-frontend-observability](), [instrumentation](), [javascript](), [logs](), [metrics](), [monitoring](), [observability](), [real-user-monitoring](), [session-replay](), [synthetic](), [synthetic-monitoring](), [traces](), [web-applications]() ### 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 ## Securing the Modern Workforce: The Evolution of Cisco Umbrella DevFeed: [Securing the Modern Workforce: The Evolution of Cisco Umbrella]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Negisa Taymourian Published: 2026-09-08T13:00:48Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [OpenDNS]() Topics: [Cisco Secure Access](), [Security](), [data loss prevention](), [Zero Trust](), [digital experience monitoring](), [ThousandEyes]() Tags: [ai-security](), [cisco](), [cisco-secure-access](), [cloud-security](), [digital-experience-monitoring](), [dlp](), [products-services](), [security](), [security-service-edge-sse](), [thousandeyes](), [zero-trust-network-access]() ### AI overview Cisco Umbrella has evolved into Cisco Secure Access, a cloud-delivered Security Service Edge solution for hybrid work. The platform retains Umbrella's DNS-layer security while adding zero trust network access, data loss prevention, digital experience monitoring powered by ThousandEyes, firewall as a service, and controls for generative AI applications and autonomous AI agents. ### Source excerpt For years, Cisco Umbrella has been the industry gold standard for DNS-layer security. By blocking threats before a connection is even established, it provides IT teams with a critical first line of defense and the visibility needed to keep networks safe. However, the threat landscape has changed. With the rise of hybrid work, the proliferation [...] The post Securing the Modern Workforce: The Evolution of Cisco Umbrella appeared first on Cisco Umbrella.