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Top 20 Synthetic Monitoring Tools

Synthetic monitoring is a means to monitor applications, pages, APIs, etc., from the user’s perspective so you can best understand how they perform for actual users. IT professionals use synthetic monitoring to run simple uptime checks and to monitor complex, mission-critical business transactions. Synthetic monitoring tools also allow you to test and monitor third-party applications, which can impact how your users experience your websites and web applications.

How Synthetic Transaction Monitoring Provides Complete Site Visibility & Why Basic Monitoring is Not Enough

We’ve all been in the situation before: it’s Friday at 5 PM and the only on-call engineer available to handle incidents is about to hit the slopes. Unfortunately, at that very moment, a customer reports to support that they are unable to access the company’s ecommerce website to complete a purchase. Internal monitoring systems seem quiet and services appear available on internal health dashboards.

How Synthetic Transaction Monitoring Provides Complete Site Visibility

We’ve all been in the situation before: it’s Friday at 5 PM and the only on-call engineer available to handle incidents is about to hit the slopes. Unfortunately, at that very moment, a customer reports to support that they are unable to access the company’s ecommerce website to complete a purchase. Internal monitoring systems seem quiet and services appear available on internal health dashboards.

Elastic Synthetics Projects: A Git-friendly way to manage your synthetics monitors in Elastic Observability

Elastic has an entirely new Heartbeat/Synthetics workflow superior to the current workflow. If you’re a current user of the Elastic Uptime app, read on to learn about the improved workflow you can use today and should eventually migrate toward.

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Discovering Efficiency Through 2 Steps Synthetic Monitoring for Splunk

You're probably familiar with Splunk. It's one of the most popular big data solutions organisations worldwide use to monitor their systems in real-time. But you may not know that Splunk also offers synthetic monitoring solutions via 2 Steps. 2 Steps Synthetic Monitoring for Splunk is a powerful tool that can help you speed up your application troubleshooting process. Today we'll take a closer look at what it is and how it can benefit your organisation.

How Kizen Reduced Production Challenges While Saving 20% in Engineering Hours With Synthetic Monitoring

Using Checkly’s Playwright Test and GitHub sync integration helped Kizen optimize testing and monitoring workflows Kizen is a no-code, enterprise-grade Predictive Innovation Engine that enables sales, marketing, and operations teams to save time and drive higher revenues and profitability. Their product portfolio includes a flexible customer relationship manager (ƒCRM), operations cloud, automation engine, and a predictive data platform.

Two sides of the same coin: Uniting testing and monitoring with Synthetic Monitoring

Historically, software development and SRE have worked in silos with different cultural perspectives and priorities. The goal of DevOps is to establish common and complementary practices across software development and operations. Sadly, in some organizations true collaboration is rare and we still have a way to go to build effective DevOps partnerships.