Synthetic Monitoring Guides

General Guides:

Identify Synthetic bots Clone your Synthetic tests

Alerting:

Use monitors in Synthetic tests Understand how Synthetic test retries determine monitor status Use monitors in Synthetic tests Monitor website uptime with SLOs

API:

Create your API tests with the API Manage your browser tests programmatically

Best Practices:

Avoid cache issues in Synthetic tests Monitor your HTTP requests are redirected into HTTPS Reuse browser tests journeys across your test suite Use custom JavaScript assertions in browser tests Use email validation in browser tests Upload and download test files Handle pop-ups in browser tests Record steps with a custom User-Agent Manually add the Chrome extension for your browser tests Run tests on applications using a shadow DOM

Datadog Integrations:

Ease troubleshooting with cross-product correlation Explore a preview of RUM features in Synthetics Generate Synthetic browser tests from RUM Session Replays

Metrics:

Use estimated usage metrics Use Synthetic metrics in monitors Understand API test timings and troubleshoot variations

Data Security:

Use authentication in API and multistep API tests Monitor an application that requires authentication in browser tests Use time-based one-time passwords (TOTPs) for multi-factor authentication (MFA) in browser tests Use passkeys (FIDO2) in browser tests