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Synthetic Monitoring

Just because your web application is accessible from your office and runs great on your laptop doesn't mean that your customers around the world are also having a great experience with it. Therefore, it's imperative to ensure constant availability and performance of your application from your users' point of view.

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring makes it easy for you to monitor the availability and performance of your applications as experienced by your customers around the world and around the clock. Availability is the success rate at a given instant or time period that indicates if your application is fully functional and available to users. Performance measures whether your web page or recorded interaction experiences significant slowdowns compared to a threshold.

The availability and performance of your internal resources are equally important. With the ability to execute monitors from private locations, you can bring the testing capabilities available in public locations right to your own infrastructure.

Dynatrace offers the following types of synthetic monitors: single-URL browser monitors, browser clickpaths, and HTTP monitors. Check out the links below to learn more. Licensing is based on the consumption of Synthetic actions and requests.

General information

  • Types of synthetic monitors
  • Synthetic calculations
  • Supported authentication methods in Synthetic Monitoring
  • On-demand synthetic monitor executions for CI/CD
  • Credential vault for synthetic monitors
  • External vault integration
  • Public Synthetic locations

HTTP monitors

  • Create an HTTP monitor
  • Configure HTTP monitors
  • Script mode for HTTP monitor configuration
  • Pre- and post-execution scripts for HTTP monitors
  • HTTP monitor metrics

Analysis and alerting

  • Synthetic alerting overview
  • Synthetic details for browser monitors
  • Multidimensional analysis for browser monitors
  • Waterfall graphs
  • Synthetic details for HTTP monitors

Browser monitors

  • Create a single-URL browser monitor
  • Record a browser clickpath
  • Configure browser monitors
  • Browser clickpath events
  • Script mode for browser monitor configuration
  • Browser monitor issues with Content Security Policy
  • Number of actions consumed by browser clickpaths

Private Synthetic locations

  • Requirements for private Synthetic locations
  • Create a private Synthetic location
  • Set up a proxy for private synthetic monitoring
  • Manage private Synthetic locations

API

  • Synthetic API v1
  • Synthetic API v2
  • Credential vault API
  • Calculated metrics API - Synthetic
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