As .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) becomes the default cross-platform UI framework in the Microsoft ecosystem, many teams are standardizing on it to build mobile applications for iOS and Android. However, observability has not kept pace with the shift in adoption. Developers often rely on unsupported community bindings or maintain their own wrappers around native iOS and Android SDKs, which introduces instability and ongoing maintenance. The retirement of Microsoft Visual Studio App Center has also left many teams without a clear path for monitoring crashes, errors, and user activity in production.
Datadog Real User Monitoring (RUM) provides an official .NET MAUI SDK that enables teams to instrument applications by using a single supported NuGet package. The SDK supports many core RUM features, including built-in crash reporting, error tracking, and network monitoring, along with Session Replay. All telemetry data flows into existing Datadog views, so you can analyze .NET MAUI applications alongside other mobile apps built with native iOS and Android or other cross-platform frameworks such as React Native, Flutter, and Kotlin Multiplatform.
In this post, we’ll explore how you can use the SDK to:
