CloudWatch RUM vs. Ad blockers : How to fix possible missing telemetry

A few weeks ago, I was reviewing the Amazon CloudWatch RUM dashboard for a web application I maintain. Page views were suspiciously low. After some digging, I opened the browser's DevTools on my machine and there it was: uBlock Origin was quietly blocking every request to dataplane.rum.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com . Our real user monitoring was blind to a non-negligible portion of our actual traffic. CloudWatch RUM is one of those AWS services that doesn't get the attention it deserves. But if you ca