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Synthetics

Using Playwright and Checkly to create an ecommerce synthetic monitoring check (no audio)

This short video shows the creation of a synthetic monitoring check using Playwright and Checkly. Here's an outline of the steps in the video: Note: If you’d like to follow along with the steps here, make sure that you have Playwright installed first.

Using Kentik Synthetics for Your Cloud Monitoring Needs

The final post of a three-part guide to assuring performance and availability of critical cloud services across public and hybrid clouds and the internet Kentik Synthetics adds integrated, autonomous, pervasive performance test telemetry to our market-leading network traffic analytics and observability platform, the Kentik Network Observability Platform. For modern clouds, proactive synthetic monitoring can no longer be delivered as a standalone tool.

Diagnose Any Microsoft Teams Problem in 3 Clicks or Less!

In this video, we demonstrate how to diagnose Microsoft Teams problems with hop-by-hop analysis and insights in real time - All in three clicks or less. Whether your users work from home, the office, or anywhere in between, a superb call-quality experience is a must. How can IT operations staff ensure that? Using a combination of synthetics and real user monitoring (RUM), support teams can now get comprehensive visibility into Teams performance and use those insights for optimization.

What can Elastic Synthetics tell us about Kibana Dashboards?

I like to leverage our technologies to ensure our products have a pleasant user experience. Elastic Synthetics enables you to configure it in an out-of-the-box experience directly through your Elastic Cloud deployment without the need to install anything! It also works across the globe with multiple locations you can choose from. Ever wondered how fast your web service is when accessed from Japan, Germany, or the eastern U.S.? Now you can do this by simply clicking on a checkbox.

Getting ahead of application performance issues

When application performance is not managed proactively, it impacts the customer experience, costs business downtime, and takes time to fix the issue. And when an application is down, transactions can't happen, and staff lose productivity. This equates to a loss in revenue. Even worse, some organisations are oblivious to slowly performing applications until much later when trying to understand the underlying issue. By then, it's often too late, and they've already lost customers or money.

Observing your application through the eyes of a user: A brand new synthetic monitoring experience is coming

Understanding if your applications are not just available but also functioning as expected is critical for any organization. Third-party dependencies and different end-user device types means that infrastructure monitoring and application observability alone are not enough to spot and minimize the impact of application anomalies.

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What Makes Citrix Difficult for Synthetic Monitoring Solutions?

Synthetic monitoring and automated testing are a major advantage if you can use them. Unfortunately, some challenges stand in the way of running these technologies outside of a web browser. Trying to run synthetic monitoring on Citrix is even more challenging. Thankfully, 2 Steps has identified and solved these issues. In this post, we'll take your through the challenges that running a synthetic monitoring and automated testing solution on Citrix poses and tell you how 2 Steps makes those challenges go away.

Get the Coverage You Need in the User Experience Monitoring Space

Understanding user behaviour can help companies and organisations improve customer engagement, sales conversions, and customer service. On the other hand, not understanding user behaviour can result in lost customers and missed opportunities. So what is user behaviour, how does it affect your business, and how can you use it to improve your marketing efforts?

Cloud Computing - Complexity in Observability

Cloud computing has become a mainstream technology, and it's now easier to get started with the cloud than ever before. However, while the benefits of the cloud are undeniable, there are still challenges that you will have to face when using cloud services. One of these challenges is how difficult it can be to monitor an app or infrastructure. Cloud computing is a complex environment, so monitoring everything in it is challenging.