Application performance monitoring (APM) tools enable IT personnel and DevOps teams to ensure enterprise and customer-facing applications meet users' expected performance, reliability, and user experience (UX) goals. APM tools generally fall into one of two categories: real user monitoring (RUM) or synthetic monitoring. RUM platforms capture and report on traffic metrics and performance checks derived from real application users ó providing real-time insights into UX and performance. Conversely, synthetic monitoring tools emulate user interactions to benchmark application performance under various conditions and scenarios ó enabling operations teams to identify and remediate potential bottlenecks faster.