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Synthetic Transaction Monitoring with Kentik

What is synthetic transaction monitoring and how is it beneficial? Phil Gervasi and Sunil Kodiyan talk STM, how it works, what problems you can solve with it, and how it fits into an overall digital experience monitoring strategy. Learn how synthetic transaction monitoring can be used to test and track application performance from an end-user perspective, in this short talk and technical demonstration.

Implementing Synthetic Monitoring with Telegraf and Logz.io

In my previous blog post, we explored key questions about Synthetic Monitoring, such as what it is, why it’s important, how it works, and how it compares to Real-User monitoring. Synthetic Monitoring is becoming an increasingly-popular method to continuously monitor the uptime of applications and the critical flows within them so that DevOps, IT, and engineering teams are quickly alerted when issues arise. Unfortunately, a good Synthetic Monitoring tool can be expensive.

An Introduction to Synthetic Monitoring: Monitor the Uptime of your App and Critical Flows

In a world where the customer’s digital experience is critical to business outcomes, it is crucial to understand how our applications are behaving. As businesses increasingly rely on the performance and availability of revenue-generating applications, the tolerance for downtime and slow response times has plummeted – so the response to production issues must be quick and effective.

Kentik moves up the stack with Synthetic Transaction Monitoring

In our quest to provide the leading network observability solution, Kentik has been focused on developing a service for NetOps teams that empowers them to have intimate knowledge of their network traffic and the devices that route traffic. Our service helps them plan capacity, project costs, optimize routes, detect unwanted traffic, troubleshoot issues and analyze events.

The Role of Observability in Digital Transformation

Rapid digital transformation has taken shape in recent years, with a heavy focus on cloud usage. Many firms are shifting workloads to the cloud, upgrading legacy technology, and restructuring business concepts and workflows to reap the countless benefits of becoming a digitally transformed enterprise. However, these adjustments are not without their obstacles. Cloud technology is as technical as it is valuable to a company's commercial objectives.

Observability: How to build a business case

In the current world, observability is something that no one should ignore. This is because of the ever-increasing services and technologies required by modern enterprises. Observability is about monitoring, logging, tracing, debugging, and profiling similar systems. When you don't monitor your applications, you can't know whether they are working correctly. A well-designed app or system should have the right observability from its development stage.

What Is Synthetic Monitoring? | The Benefits of Running Synthetic Tests - Sematext

Find out what synthetic monitoring is and how it works. Discover the benefits of using synthetic testing tools for website performance and how to choose the right one for your use case. Synthetic monitoring (also known as synthetic testing and active or proactive monitoring) is one of the many tools developers use to oversee their websites. Synthetic testing removes the user and their device as variables and lets your test your deployed site. This helps ensure the website and all its third-party APIs are accessible and functioning as they should.

What's Up with Synthetic Monitoring?

If you are running a website or have a live application, you will have to ensure that the digital experience for your end-user is seamless. That is where Synthetic Monitoring can help. Any bad experience, delay, or even a glitch could hurt your budget. Industry experts unanimously agree that it is best to ensure that the web pages load as quickly as possible.

Sematext Synthetic Monitoring | Release and Features | The Best Website Monitoring Tools

Sematext’s Synthetic monitoring tool is a website monitoring solution that lets you track the availability and performance of your websites. Monitor your entire website or an individual HTTP request, including 3rd party APIs. Get the best website monitoring tools with Sematext’s synthetics and Real User monitoring tools.

Solving slow web applications - Kentik Synthetics Page Load Test

Kentik's Phil Gervasi talks with Product Manager Sunil Kodiyan to discuss what synthetic testing is and how it can be used to troubleshoot issues with web applications. Sunil demonstrates the use of the Kentik Synthetics Page Load test, which provides a granular breakdown of how every component on the page is loading. Using that information, web app developers can easily track down exactly what’s impacting a site’s performance—whether it’s a site hosted on-premises, in the cloud, or by a SaaS provider.