What is synthetic user monitoring?

Synthetic or directed monitoring is a method to monitor your applications by simulating users – directing the path taken through the application. This directed monitoring provides information as to the uptime and performance of your critical business transactions, and most common paths in the application.

Why do we need Synthetic Monitoring?

Synthetic monitoring allows you to proactively simulate traffic to that area and help you ensure availability and performance. Synthetic monitoring enables you to check your applications performance from that geography and address performance issues, if any, before your real end users encounter them.

What is the tool used for synthetic transaction monitoring?

Synthetic transaction monitoring tools are crucial to ensure you’re delivering the best customer experience possible. By simulating real-world activities, SolarWinds® Pingdom® verifies that all possible website interactions are fully operational and optimized for maximum performance.

What are synthetic metrics?

A synthetic measure (or synthetic indicator) is a value that is the result of combining other metrics, which are measurements of various features.

What can synthetic monitoring do for your application?

Synthetic monitoring can automatically keep tabs on application uptime and tell you how your application responds to typical user behavior, and it uses scripts to generate simulated user behavior for various scenarios, geographic locations, device types, and other variables.

How does synthetic monitoring work in a firewall?

Synthetic monitoring helps you emulate user interactions and run them as tests from global monitoring locations or from behind your firewall.

How are behavioral scripts used in synthetic monitoring?

Synthetic monitoring. Behavioral scripts (or paths) are created to simulate an action or path that a customer or end-user would take on a site. Those paths are then continuously monitored at specified intervals for performance, such as: functionality, availability, and response time measures.

How does synthetic monitoring work with APM tools?

When combined with traditional APM tools, synthetic monitoring can provide deeper visibility into end-to-end performance, regardless of where applications are running.

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