Extend RUM to Electron's Main Process with the Datadog Electron SDK
Datadog, Monday, November 2nd, 2026
Datadog's Electron SDK extends Real User Monitoring to the Node.js main process of Electron desktop apps.
Datadog announced its Electron SDK, which extends Real User Monitoring to the Node.js main process of Electron applications.
Renderer-only monitoring misses failures in the main process, which handles authentication, background sync, network requests and interprocess communication, so a crash can end a session without explanatory data.
The SDK captures main process errors, crashes, views and outgoing network requests as RUM events and combines them with renderer events from the Browser SDK in one session timeline.
It also uses the Datadog Node.js tracing library to connect IPC and network activity to backend traces.