Synthetic Monitoring Skill

Synthetic Monitoring

Overview
When to Use
Quick Start
Reference Guides
Best Practices

Overview

Set up synthetic monitoring to automatically simulate real user journeys, API workflows, and critical business transactions to detect issues and validate performance.

When to Use

End-to-end workflow validation
API flow testing
User journey simulation
Transaction monitoring
Critical path validation

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

// synthetic-tests.js
const { chromium } = require("playwright");

class SyntheticMonitor {
  constructor(config = {}) {
    this.baseUrl = config.baseUrl || "https://app.example.com";
    this.timeout = config.timeout || 30000;
  }

  async testUserFlow() {
    const browser = await chromium.launch();
    const page = await browser.newPage();
    const metrics = { steps: {} };
    const startTime = Date.now();

    try {
      // Step 1: Navigate to login
      let stepStart = Date.now();
      await page.goto(`${this.baseUrl}/login`, { waitUntil: "networkidle" });
      metrics.steps.navigation = Date.now() - stepStart;

      // Step 2: Perform login
      stepStart = Date.now();
      await page.fill('input[name="email"]', "test@example.com");
      await page.fill('input[name="password"]', "password123");
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

| Guide | Contents | |---|---| | Synthetic Tests with Playwright | Synthetic Tests with Playwright | | API Synthetic Tests | API Synthetic Tests | | Scheduled Synthetic Monitoring | Scheduled Synthetic Monitoring |

Best Practices

✅ DO

Test critical user journeys
Simulate real browser conditions
Monitor from multiple locations
Track response times
Alert on test failures
Rotate test data
Test mobile and desktop
Include error scenarios

❌ DON'T

Test with production data
Reuse test accounts
Skip timeout configurations
Ignore test maintenance
Test too frequently
Hard-code credentials
Ignore geographic variations
Test only happy paths

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