For accurate and effective performance testing, synthetic monitoring has become a staple and this is only going to continue in the coming years. This is mainly due to the fact that this process is beneficial and offers numerous advantages to organizations. With synthetic monitoring, your organization can identify performance issues before they affect real users. By continuously simulating user interactions, your team can highlight and rectify performance bottlenecks and infrastructure issues in real time.

SNMP, which stands for Simple Network Management Protocol, is often viewed as a legacy protocol, with SNMP not being actively worked on anymore, which led to both Microsoft and Google pronouncing that SNMP was dead. Yet, SNMP is still commonly used by numerous industries as the advantages of SNMP, especially for network monitoring, are profound. Practically, all network components across all vendors possess built-in SNMP capability.