Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for monitoring user activity. In embodiments, a front-end component collections data that may be useful to an administrator or others in determining or inferring what a user was doing or trying to do when interacting with an application, and the front-end component communicates at least some of this data to a back-end component. In embodiments, the communication of data related to the user activity is piggy-backed with typical transmissions, such as requests and responses, to reduce the overhead of the user activity monitoring.