Synthetic monitoring: Detect website issues before your customers experience them
Summary
This article explains synthetic monitoring as a proactive way to test websites and applications before users encounter problems. It shows how automated scripts can check uptime, login flows, checkout paths, and APIs to catch failures early and protect revenue. It also compares synthetic monitoring with real user monitoring and recommends using both together for better observability. The piece highlights several tools, including Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, AWS CloudWatch Synthetics, and PRTG Network Monitor, and outlines practical steps for implementation.
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industries
Entertainment
applications
Accounting and Taxes
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Software
SaaS
Observability
Linked Companies
Dynatrace
$1M to $5M
Datadog
$1M to $5M
Uptrends
$1M to $5M
New Relic
$100M to $250M
Paessler GmbH
$50M to $100M
Pingdom
$1M to $5M
API Monitoring
$1M to $5M
Postman
$500M to $1B