Critical processes
Check a sign-up, a payment or a login every few minutes.
Synthetic Monitoring.
Automated tests that walk through your services every few minutes to catch failures before your users do.
The problem we solve.
Some failures only show up in the early hours or at a specific step of a process, when almost nobody is using the site. Without automated tests, you find out when the first complaint arrives.
What’s included.
- Browser tests for critical journeys
- API tests
- Uptime tests
- Private locations for internal services
- Availability detectors and dashboards
How we work.
Five phases, always in the same order. Select each one to see what happens in it. In full projects they map onto the stages of our method.
We review what's monitored today, with which tools, which incidents went unnoticed and what it costs.
We design the collection layer with OpenTelemetry: agents, gateways, egress paths, common attributes and sampling.
We create the browser, API and uptime tests and, if needed, deploy private locations.
We trigger controlled failures to confirm that each test detects them and alerts the right people.
We tune cardinality, sampling and detectors based on real usage to contain cost and noise.
Technical capabilities.
- Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
- Browser tests
- API tests
- Uptime tests
- Private locations
- Web Vitals
Use cases.
Third-party APIs
Detect when a provider you depend on fails.
Internal applications
Watch services that aren't reachable from the internet.
Benefits for your organisation.
- Failures detected before users notice
- Availability measured objectively
- Evidence for service-level agreements
- Regressions visible after every release
Deliverables.
- Configured tests
- Private locations deployed where needed
- Detectors and dashboards
- Guide for creating new tests
Frequently asked questions.
Can internal applications be tested?
Yes, with private locations deployed inside your network.
How often do they run?
We set it per test based on criticality and cost.
What if the test needs credentials?
They're stored as protected variables and dedicated test accounts are used.
Shall we talk about Synthetic Monitoring?
Tell us about your situation. If this service is not what you need, we will tell you; if it is, we will propose a concrete first step.
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