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Synthetic Monitoring

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Covers synthetic monitoring for proactively detecting issues before users do. Explains how to set up health checks, multi-step transaction monitors, API monitors, and browser-based synthetic tests for critical user journeys.

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Synthetic Monitoring

Detect issues before your users do by running automated synthetic tests against your services. Set up HTTP checks, API monitors, and browser-based tests that simulate real user interactions.

Usage

Ask about setting up synthetic monitoring for your services, choosing check frequencies, or monitoring critical user journeys.

Examples

  • "How do I set up synthetic monitoring for my login flow?"
  • "What endpoints should I monitor with synthetic checks?"
  • "How often should my synthetic monitors run?"

Guidelines

  • Monitor critical user journeys, not just individual endpoints
  • Run checks from multiple geographic locations to detect regional issues
  • Set check intervals based on the criticality of the monitored flow
  • Alert immediately on synthetic check failures for critical paths
  • Use synthetic monitoring data to establish performance baselines