synthetic-monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring

Table of Contents

• 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"

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

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