aws-rum-react

Amazon CloudWatch RUM React client

This is the CloudWatch RUM React client source code repository. It hosts a React library which performs real user monitoring (RUM) telemetry on web applications. Data collected by the RUM React client includes page load timing, JavaScript errors, and HTTP requests.

aws-rum-react is an open source, community-driven package for aws-rum-web. It is neither created nor vended by Amazon or Amazon CloudWatch.

Install

The CloudWatch RUM React client can be built into the application's JavaScript bundle using the provided CommonJS or ECMAScript modules. The recommended method to consume and manage the React client dependency is to use the React client's Node module.

npm install --save aws-rum-react aws-rum-web
# or
yarn add aws-rum-react aws-rum-web

Instrument the application

The following code shows an example of how to instrument an application. This component should wrap as much of the application as possible.

import { AwsRumProvider } from 'aws-rum-react';
import { StrictMode } from 'react';
import ROOT from './constants/root';
import App from './features/app';

ROOT.render(
  <StrictMode>
    <AwsRumProvider
      allowCookies
      endpoint="https://dataplane.rum.us-west-2.amazonaws.com"
      guestRoleArn="arn:aws:iam::000000000000:role/RUM-Monitor-us-west-2-000000000000-00xx-Unauth"
      id="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
      identityPoolId="us-west-2:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
      region="us-west-2"
      sessionSampleRate={1}
      telemetries={['errors', 'performance']}
      version="1.0.0"
    >
      <App />
    </AwsRumProvider>
  </StrictMode>,
);

Modify the AwsRumProvider component props to match your AppMonitor. See Props for details.

Props

Prop name	Type	Description
id	string	a globally unique ID for the AppMonitor
region	string	the AWS region of the AppMonitor
version	string	the application's semantic version

You may pass any application-specific React client configuration as additional props which are all optional. While these fields are optional, depending on your application, the React client may not function properly if certain fields are omitted. For example, guestRoleArn and identityPoolId are both required unless your application performs its own AWS authentication and passes the credentials to the web client using the command setAwsCredentials(...).

To get started, we recommend the props in the above sample. The guestRoleArn and identityPoolId shown are dummy values. Modify these to match the resources created when setting up the AppMonitor:

For a complete list of configuration options, see Application-specific Configurations.

Hooks

You can use hooks to interact with the RUM client directly.

useAwsRum

You may access the Amazon CloudWatch RUM client directly, though it's not recommended. This hook is provided to unblock you in edge cases where custom functionality is desired.

import { useAwsRum } from 'aws-rum-react';

function MyComponent() {
  // Access the client directly (not recommended).
  const client = useAwsRum();

  const handleDisable = useCallback(() => {
    client.disable();
  }, [client]);

  const handleEnable = useCallback(() => {
    client.enable();
  }, [client]);

  // ...
}

useRecordError

You may access the recordError method via the useRecordError hook.

import { useRecordError } from 'aws-rum-react';

function MyComponent() {
  // Record an error.
  const recordError = useRecordError();

  const [error, setError] = useState(null);

  useEffect(() => {
    if (error !== null) {
      recordError(error);
    }
  }, [error, recordError]);

  // ...
}

useRecordEvent

You may access the recordEvent method via the useRecordEvent hook.

import { useRecordEvent } from 'aws-rum-react';

function MyComponent({ onSubmit }) {
  // Record an event.
  const recordEvent = useRecordEvent();

  const [state, setState] = useState({});

  const handleSubmit = useCallback(() => {
    onSubmit(state);
    recordEvent('MySubmitEvent', state);
  }, [recordEvent]);

  // ...
}

useRecordPageView

You may access the recordPageView API via the useRecordPageView hook.

import { useRecordPageView } from 'aws-rum-react';

function MyComponent() {
  // Record a page view.
  const recordPageView = useRecordPageView();

  const pageAttributes = usePageAttributes();

  useEffect(() => {
    recordPageView(pageAttributes);
  }, [pageAttributes, recordPageView]);

  // ...
}

Higher order components

You may use the withAwsRum HOC and withRecordError HOC to access the AWS RUM instance and the recordError utility function respectively.

This is particularly useful for mounting your Error Boundaries.

import { withRecordError } from 'aws-rum-react';
import { PureComponent } from 'react';

interface Props {
  readonly recordError: (error: unknown) => void;
}

class ErrorBoundary extends PureComponent<Props> {
  public componentDidCatch(err: Error): void {
    this.props.recordError(err);
  }
}

export default withRecordError(ErrorBoundary);

Unit tests

When writing unit tests, a real client cannot be instantiated. You may use the utility provider as demonstrated below.

// MyComponent.ts
import { useRecordError } from 'aws-rum-react';
import { useEffect } from 'react';

function MyComponent(): null {
  const recordError = useRecordError();

  useEffect((): void => {
    recordError('Hello world!');
  }, [recordError]);

  return null;
}

// MyComponent.test.ts
import { render } from '@testing-library/react';
import { MockAwsRumProvider } from 'aws-rum-react';
import type { PropsWithChildren, ReactElement } from 'react';
import { vi } from 'vitest';
import MyComponent from './MyComponent';

describe('MyComponent', (): void => {
  it('should record an error', (): void => {
    const TEST_RECORD_ERROR = vi.fn();

    render(<MyComponent />, {
      wrapper({ children }: PropsWithChildren): ReactElement {
        return (
          <MockAwsRumProvider recordError={TEST_RECORD_ERROR}>
            {children}
          </MockAwsRumProvider>
        );
      },
    });

    expect(TEST_RECORD_ERROR).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
    expect(TEST_RECORD_ERROR).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith('Hello world!');
  });
});

Additional documentation

• Configuring the client
• Troubleshooting

Getting help

Use the following community resources for getting help with the SDK. We use the GitHub issues for tracking bugs and feature requests.

• View the CloudWatch RUM documentation.
• Ask a question in the Amazon CloudWatch forum.
• Open a support ticket with AWS Support.
• If you think you may have found a bug:
  • open an issue with aws-rum-react, or
  • open an issue with aws-rum-web.

Contributing

We support and accept pull requests from the community.

See CONTRIBUTING.