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The Leading Synthetic Monitoring Tools

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.

Top 10 Synthetic Monitoring Tools for 2024

When it comes to ensuring your website’s performance and uptime, synthetic monitoring tools have become indispensable. These tools help businesses proactively detect and resolve issues before they affect real users, offering peace of mind and optimal website performance. In this article, we’ll explore what synthetic monitoring is, the best tools for 2024, and why Dotcom-Monitor is our top choice.

The evolution of Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring: new features, pricing updates, and more

With 2024 coming to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on how Grafana Cloud has evolved this year — and synthetic monitoring, in particular, is one area where we’ve really focused our efforts. In May, we rolled out a revamped version of Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring with the overall goal of making your monitoring processes not just more efficient, but more impactful.

5 tips to write better browser tests for performance testing and synthetic monitoring

Given the complexity of modern websites, browser testing is essential to ensure a positive user experience. With the Grafana k6 browser module, you can interact with real web browsers and simulate user interactions — like clicking, typing, or navigating pages — to collect frontend metrics, increase site reliability, and fix performance issues before they ever impact your users.

Synthetic Website Monitoring Best Practices

Synthetic website monitoring (also known as synthetic testing) involves simulating the actions that visitors perform on a website and the journeys they take, in order to evaluate performance and proactively spot any issues or problems. For example, synthetic testing can help answer critical questions like: However, not all synthetic testing solutions or strategies are equal.

How to Your Monitor Business Application Performance

Application performance monitoring is key to having business operations function well, and user satisfaction is at an all-time high as your company keeps ahead in the race. The result is frustrated users, lost productivity, and lost revenues. Proactive monitoring of some key aspects of your business applications puts you in a good position: you are able to identify issues before they can turn into major ones; optimize performance, and ensure smooth delivery of an end-to-end user experience. Here are some strategies and tools needed to effectively monitor application performance for your business.

What is Synthetic Monitoring?

Synthetic monitoring (SM) uses script-based, simulated user interactions to assess the performance and reliability of websites, application program interfaces (APIs), and other digital services. These scripts can mimic typical user behaviors, such as logging in, completing a purchase, site navigation, etc., and run consistently from multiple locations so you get real-time feedback on how your systems handle different scenarios.

Grafana Cloud updates: k6 browser checks in Synthetic Monitoring, an easier way to share dashboards, and more

We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest and greatest updates for Grafana Cloud this month. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.

RUM vs. Synthetic Monitoring: DevOps Team's Essential Guide

Application slowdowns or outages interrupt the user experience and web performance. This significantly impacts brand reputation, leading to customer churn and a heavy dent in the competitive edge. This is where Application Performance Monitoring (APM) comes in. APM tracks application performance to ensure a positive user experience. Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Synthetic Monitoring are two approaches to analyzing your app’s performance and the digital experience they provide.