Synthetic Monitoring Guides

General Guides:

Identify Synthetic bots Clone your Synthetic tests

Alerting:

Using monitors in Synthetic tests Website uptime monitoring with SLOs

API:

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

Best Practices:

Avoiding cache issues in Synthetic tests Monitor your HTTP requests are redirected into HTTPS Reusing browser tests journeys across your test suite Using custom JavaScript assertions in browser tests Email validation in browser tests Test file upload and download Handling pop-ups in browser tests Record steps with a custom User-Agent Manually adding the browser test Chrome extension Using a shadow DOM in browser tests

Datadog Integrations:

Ease troubleshooting with cross-product correlation Explore a preview of the RUM Explorer in Synthetics

Metrics:

Using estimated usage metrics for Synthetic Monitoring Using Synthetic metrics in monitors Understanding API test timings and troubleshooting variations

Data Security:

Using authentication in API and multistep API tests Monitor an application that requires authentication in browser tests TOTPs for multi-factor authentication (MFA) in browser tests Using passkeys (FIDO2) in browser tests