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Synthetics

2 Steps V6 - New Features

Check out how 2 Steps can now match elements as well as visual recognition. Add custom Javascript and build synthetic transactions even faster than before. 2 Steps now supports “element matching” as an alternative to image matching in Chrome tests. This major new functionality allows 2 Steps to handle many previously difficult scenarios, for example when the target of a command is pushed off the bottom of the screen or hidden by a popup, or when a style update changes the appearance of a button.

2 Steps v6 Demo

Agentless Synthetic Monitoring. Purpose-built for Splunk. Create active monitoring tests in minutes for Web, Windows, Mobile, Citrix and more in minutes. Watch the latest features in the v6 release in action. 2 Steps now supports “element matching” as an alternative to image matching in Chrome tests. This major new functionality allows 2 Steps to handle many previously difficult scenarios, for example when the target of a command is pushed off the bottom of the screen or hidden by a popup, or when a style update changes the appearance of a button.

With Splunk Synthetic Monitoring, proactively find and fix your user experience issues

Trend, visualize, and improve performance of all your page resources and third party dependencies. Detect and resolve issues faster across your critical user flows, business transactions and API endpoints using Splunk Synthetic Monitoring.

Prioritize and resolve performance defects with Splunk Web Optimization

Find, fix and prevent web performance issues with an intelligent optimization engine. From Google's Lighthouse scores to core web vitals and 50+ modern performance metrics, learn to benchmark and improve page performance and user-experience with Splunk Web Optimization. Get a free trial as part of Splunk Synthetic Monitoring today.

Introducing multi-factor authentication in Datadog Synthetic tests

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an increasingly popular method for securing user accounts that requires users to provide two or more pieces of identifying information when logging into an application. This information can consist of unique verification links or codes sent to the user’s phone or email address, as well as time-based one-time passwords (TOTPs) generated by authenticator applications or hardware.

How to set up synthetic monitoring at scale with Grafana Cloud

While unit testing and integration testing can give you insight into the individual functionalities of an application, “at times you need some sort of monitoring or testing mechanism which also simulates a user’s behavior to test how the application would work or look to an actual user in the world,” says Grofers Software Development Engineer Yashvardhan Kukreja. That’s where synthetic monitoring comes in.

That One Time Using APM Bit Us

At Catchpoint, our mission is to provide customers with actionable data that will help them reduce MTTR and maintain a positive digital experience. We measure "from where the users are" to ensure the data reflects real end-user experience. As someone that's part of the Catchpoint on-call chain, this is extremely important to me. I do not want to be woken up at 2 AM because a server is misbehaving, only to find out that the application failed over gracefully and no users were impacted.

Synthetic Monitoring of Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon WorkSpaces enables you to provision virtual, cloud-based Microsoft Windows or Amazon Linux desktops for users. WorkSpaces eliminates the need to procure and deploy hardware or install complex software. You can quickly add or remove users as your needs change. Users can access their virtual desktops from multiple devices or web browsers.