Setting up CDN monitoring
To calculate performance metrics, the system passively monitors your web traffic. However, if your web application uses a content delivery network (CDN), the system may need information from a browser to accurately calculate performance metrics.
enables you to set up monitoring for web applications with a CDN service.A CDN is a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers in the Internet or on private networks. An origin server is where your web application content is stored, and it is monitored by the
.Because cached content does not always come from your origin server, deriving performance statistics for content served by an external provider might be challenging. By calculating statistics with special JavaScript code embedded in your web application pages, the system measures the page-render time when some of the content is cached or served by a CDN.
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