Can RUM detect user triggering web developer tools (F12)?

[mengsuan_koe1]

The use case is to detect if a user has triggered browser developer tools, or pressed on F12 to make the dev tools show up. 

Does Dynatrace detect F12 keypress as an event?

[Peter_Youssef]

Hello @mengsuan_koe1 

Dynatrace support 3 types of user actions among the user journeys "sessions", so such action will will be treated as a XHR action.

also if you need to define a custom action through the api Dynatrace can detect it as well.

• https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/platform-modules/digital-experience/rum-concepts/user-actions
• By default, RUM captures certain interaction types. You can configure RUM to detect even more interaction types. For details, see Capture additional interaction types for web applications.

Hoping it adds value,

KR,

Peter.

[GosiaMurawska]

Hi @mengsuan_koe1! Did you find the solution for this one? 

[mengsuan_koe1]

Not really. I suppose if the developers triggers a custom action from Javascript, it may be technically possible. However there is no clear mechanism to detect developer tools being launched, we did not pursue further into this.