Getting Started with Synthetic Monitoring
Synthetic Monitoring Overview
It is important to make sure your applications are available and performing well for your customers. Broken links, slow response times or problems with critical transactions can lead to unhappy customers.
Synthetic monitoring uses scripts to emulate user behavior across geographic locations and device types. This data is collected and analyzed to help you understand your services levels and monitor your applications for performance and problems.
Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring types:
- Single-URL browser monitors: A Single-URL browser monitor simulates a user visiting your website, to a single location.
- Browser clickpath: Recording of a sequence of clicks and user input that simulates a user journey through user application.
- HTTP Monitors: Simple HTTP requests used to monitor API endpoints or checks for single-resource availability.
These are used to test and monitor business critical workflows.
Dynatrace Configuration Options:
- Location and time interval
- Device
- Performance thresholds
You can define maintenance window, downtime excluded from availability calculations.
You can also disable synthetic monitoring and previous monitoring data retained.
Synthetic Monitoring DEM Units:
Digitial Experience Monitoring or DEM Units include synthetic, real user monitoring and session replay. DEM units are represented in a pool of shared usage.
- Real user sessions initiated by a mouse click, finger tap or triggered action count as a full DEM Unit.
- Synthetic events including page loads, navigation events or actions that trigger an XHR or fetch request also use a full DEM unit.
- Real-user sessions without session replay equal one quarter of a DEM unit.
- Synthetic requests from HTTP monitors and third party synthetic results are treated as 0.1 (one tenth) of a DEM unit. Each request executed by an HTTP monitor equates to one synthetic request.
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