{"slug":"frontend-observability-rum-instrumentation","title":"frontend-observability-rum-instrumentation","summary":"Design or review browser-side Real User Monitoring instrumentation for Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) using the web-vitals attribution build and distributed tracing via OpenTelemetry Web, enforcing lab-vs-field evidence labeling, sampling/cardinality sizing, and PII-in-telemetry","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T21:52:13.990671Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic","stars":24,"forks":3,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T13:00:24Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: frontend-observability-rum-instrumentation\ndescription: Design or review browser-side Real User Monitoring instrumentation for Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) using the web-vitals attribution build and distributed tracing via OpenTelemetry Web, enforcing lab-vs-field evidence labeling, sampling/cardinality sizing, and PII-in-telemetry controls, with library-specific wiring references loaded only when instrumentation code is actually being written or reviewed.\nallowed-tools: Read Grep Glob\nmetadata:\nauthor: \"github: VincentChuWaiChow\"\nversion: \"0.1.0\"\nupdated: \"2026-07-02\"\ncategory: observability</h2>\n<h1>Frontend Observability RUM Instrumentation</h1>\n<h2>Purpose</h2>\n<p>Lab-only performance testing (Lighthouse, synthetic CI runs) systematically misses the device/network diversity of real users, and ad-hoc telemetry instrumentation routinely leaks PII into span attributes or blows up observability cost through unsampled high-cardinality export. This skill wires and reviews field RUM (web-vitals + OpenTelemetry Web) with explicit evidence labeling and privacy/cost guardrails baked in from the start.</p>\n<h2>When to use</h2>\n<p>Use this skill when the user asks to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>instrument Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) field measurement in a web app,</li>\n<li>set up or review OpenTelemetry Web browser tracing (document load, fetch/XHR spans),</li>\n<li>review an existing RUM/telemetry pipeline for PII exposure or sampling/cost issues,</li>\n<li>interpret or report on Core Web Vitals data and needs a lab-vs-field distinction made explicit,</li>\n<li>set or validate a performance budget against field p75 data.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>When NOT to use</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Diagnosing <em>why</em> a specific LCP/INP/CLS number is high (phase decomposition of an existing regression) — hand off to <code>core-web-vitals-triage</code>; this skill instruments the pipeline that produces the data, it does not decompose an already-captured regression.</li>\n<li>Bundle size, code-splitting, or caching remediation once a cause is known — hand off to <code>bundle-budget-code-splitting-review</code> or <code>service-worker-cache-strategy-review</code>.</li>\n<li>Server-side or backend-service tracing with no browser-origin span — this skill is scoped to browser-side RUM and OpenTelemetry Web only.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Context7 Documentation Protocol</h2>\n<p><code>web-vitals</code> and OpenTelemetry Web packages ship breaking API changes across major versions (attribution-build option shapes, sampler class names, exporter constructor options), and memorized snippets go stale. Before writing or reviewing instrumentation code:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Call <code>ToolSearch</code> with query <code>\"context7\"</code> (or <code>\"select:mcp__Context7__resolve-library-id,mcp__Context7__query-docs\"</code>) to load the Context7 tools if not already loaded this session.</li>\n<li>Call <code>mcp__Context7__resolve-library-id</code> for <code>web-vitals</code> and/or <code>opentelemetry-js</code> before making any claim about their current API shape. Verified IDs as of this skill's <code>updated</code> date: <code>/googlechrome/web-vitals</code> and <code>/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js</code>.</li>\n<li>Call <code>mcp__Context7__query-docs</code> for the specific mechanism in scope — e.g. \"attribution build generateTarget option\", \"INPAttributionReportOpts durationThreshold\", \"WebTracerProvider spanProcessors config\", \"TraceIdRatioBasedSampler\" — before ruling on it. Do this per review; do not reuse a prior session's memory of these APIs.</li>\n<li>Known facts verified via Context7 as of this skill's <code>updated</code> date: the attribution build (<code>web-vitals/attribution</code>) accepts <code>AttributionReportOpts</code> (<code>reportAllChanges</code>, <code>generateTarget</code>) on <code>onCLS</code>/<code>onFCP</code>/<code>onLCP</code>/<code>onTTFB</code>, and <code>INPAttributionReportOpts</code> additionally exposes <code>durationThreshold</code> (default <code>40</code>) and <code>includeProcessedEventEntries</code> (default <code>true</code>) on <code>onINP</code>. <code>WebTracerProvider</code> (from <code>@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-web</code>) takes a <code>spanProcessors</code> array in its constructor — do not tell a user to call a separate <code>addSpanProcessor</code> method as the primary pattern without checking the installed SDK version. <code>TraceIdRatioBasedSampler</code> takes a single ratio argument (0–1) and is normally wrapped in <code>ParentBasedSampler({ root: ... })</code> so that downstream/parent sampling decisions are respected.</li>\n<li>If Context7 is unavailable or returns no relevant match, fall back to <code>official_docs</code> / <code>references/*.md</code> and mark the claim <code>documentation-based (Context7 unavailable)</code> rather than presenting it as freshly verified.</li>\n<li>Never invent a <code>web-vitals</code> metric field, attribution property, OpenTelemetry exporter option, or sampler class that no queried source confirms.</li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Lean operating rules</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Always label every performance number as lab evidence (Lighthouse/CI/synthetic) or field evidence (RUM, real users — state the percentile; p75 is the CWV standard) — never let the two blur into an unlabeled \"the site is fast\" claim.</li>\n<li>Default to the standard <code>web-vitals</code> build (<code>onLCP</code>/<code>onINP</code>/<code>onCLS</code>) for production reporting; only use the <code>/attribution</code> build's richer diagnostic payload when actively debugging a specific regression, and only send that extra payload to a dev/debug destination, not blanket production export.</li>\n<li>Do not enable <code>reportAllChanges: true</code> in production by default — it multiplies event volume for a debugging-only benefit.</li>\n<li>Before adding any custom span/metric attribute, run it through a PII check: no raw URLs with query strings, no user IDs, no free-text form input, no precise geolocation, unless explicitly scrubbed and justified.</li>\n<li>Size the OpenTelemetry sampling rate (e.g. <code>TraceIdRatioBasedSampler</code> wrapped in <code>ParentBasedSampler</code>) against the stated/estimated traffic volume and the backend's cost/cardinality limits; never recommend 100% unsampled export for a high-traffic app without an explicit cost review.</li>\n<li>Use OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions attribute names instead of inventing ad-hoc span/attribute naming, so telemetry stays queryable/comparable across services.</li>\n<li>Treat any recommended performance budget threshold as grounded in web.dev's documented \"good\" ranges (LCP ≤2.5s, INP ≤200ms, CLS ≤0.1 at p75) unless the org has an explicitly stricter documented SLO.</li>\n<li>This skill performs static review and instrumentation-code authoring only; it does not deploy telemetry configuration to production or flip sampling/export settings on a live collector without explicit human sign-off logged outside this skill.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>References</h2>\n<p>Load these only when needed:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"references/web-vitals-attribution-wiring.md\">web-vitals attribution build wiring</a> — use when writing or reviewing the actual <code>onLCP</code>/<code>onINP</code>/<code>onCLS</code> instrumentation call, choosing between standard and attribution builds, or setting <code>generateTarget</code>/<code>durationThreshold</code>/<code>reportAllChanges</code>.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/opentelemetry-web-tracing-wiring.md\">OpenTelemetry Web tracing wiring</a> — use only when wiring or reviewing <code>WebTracerProvider</code>, <code>DocumentLoadInstrumentation</code>, <code>FetchInstrumentation</code>, exporter, or sampler configuration.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/sampling-cardinality-pii-controls.md\">Sampling, cardinality, and PII controls</a> — use when sizing sampling rates against traffic/cost, naming attributes via Semantic Conventions, or auditing an existing pipeline for PII leakage.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Response minimum</h2>\n<p>Return, at minimum:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>the metric/trace component in scope and whether guidance concerns lab or field measurement,</li>\n<li>evidence level for any performance claim (lab-evidence, field-evidence with percentile, or documentation-based),</li>\n<li>instrumentation code or review findings with exact API options used,</li>\n<li>PII-in-telemetry check result for every attribute touched,</li>\n<li>sampling-rate rationale tied to stated traffic volume and cost constraints.</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"metadata.json","sizeBytes":1266,"isText":true},{"path":"references/opentelemetry-web-tracing-wiring.md","sizeBytes":7708,"isText":true},{"path":"references/sampling-cardinality-pii-controls.md","sizeBytes":8061,"isText":true},{"path":"references/web-vitals-attribution-wiring.md","sizeBytes":6792,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":7531,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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