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Accelerate CI/CD pipeline by tracking performance characteristics
DevOps and SRE teams are embracing a shift-left observability approach as a regular part of their workload to proactively solve issues before they happen. With synthetic monitoring (also known as active or proactive monitoring), they are creating and running synthetic tests to deploy faster, safer releases and continuously optimize user experiences.
However, traditional synthetic monitoring tools are difficult and time-consuming to set up, requiring extensive experience with coding and scripting. These tools are also prone to causing false alerts due to script failures caused by issues such as minor UI changes.
IBM Instana® Observability provides synthetic monitoring that can simulate user actions on an application based on factors such as geographic location, network types, different devices and more. These synthetic tests continuously monitor performance characteristics such as availability and response time at specific pre-defined intervals.
By providing real-time contextual data into application performance, you can proactively identify issues through failure notification and investigate them faster with agentic AI capabilities. IBM Instana also offers a low-code synthetic monitoring solution. Whether you are preparing to launch your product in a new market or looking to meet your SLOs, you can continue to securely deploy code at scale.
Key features
Leverage automated API test scripts to simulate scheduled and on-demand synthetic tests with your mobile or web applications, checking performance and availability from a hypothetical user’s perspective.
Empower DevOps with a synthetic monitoring tool that can also run SSL, DNS and browser script tests, helping to identify issues such as slow response times, high error rates or missing functionalities.
Use API simple test to monitor a single REST API endpoint by performing an HTTP GET request to a specified URL. With this test, users can configure parameters like the URL, expected response codes and timeout settings without writing any code.
Run a simple browser test to check a webpage for HTTP errors and basic availability. With this test, users can provide a URL, and IBM Instana is going to perform a simple browser load to verify the page’s status.
Reuse the same tests that run in production to ensure consistency between pre-deployment validation and real-world monitoring. By using the same test definitions, eliminate gaps in test coverage and avoid false confidence caused by mismatched test conditions.
Catch regressions, broken dependencies or performance degradations before changes reach production.
Create and manage SLOs based on synthetic monitoring results. Select and enter the following fields to configure your SLO: entity (synthetic test), scope, indicator (latency, traffic, and so on), objective (time window, duration, and so on) and identifiers.
Get automatically generated alerting configurations, known as SmartAlertTM, which is based on built-in blueprints such as website slowness, JavaScript errors and HTTP status codes. You can configure the SmartAlert to be delivered on an alert channel of choice when the synthetic test for a location fails.
Leverage automated API test scripts to simulate scheduled and on-demand synthetic tests with your mobile or web applications, checking performance and availability from a hypothetical user’s perspective.
Empower DevOps with a synthetic monitoring tool that can also run SSL, DNS and browser script tests, helping to identify issues such as slow response times, high error rates or missing functionalities.
Use API simple test to monitor a single REST API endpoint by performing an HTTP GET request to a specified URL. With this test, users can configure parameters like the URL, expected response codes and timeout settings without writing any code.
Run a simple browser test to check a webpage for HTTP errors and basic availability. With this test, users can provide a URL, and IBM Instana is going to perform a simple browser load to verify the page’s status.
Reuse the same tests that run in production to ensure consistency between pre-deployment validation and real-world monitoring. By using the same test definitions, eliminate gaps in test coverage and avoid false confidence caused by mismatched test conditions.
Catch regressions, broken dependencies or performance degradations before changes reach production.
Create and manage SLOs based on synthetic monitoring results. Select and enter the following fields to configure your SLO: entity (synthetic test), scope, indicator (latency, traffic, and so on), objective (time window, duration, and so on) and identifiers.
Get automatically generated alerting configurations, known as SmartAlertTM, which is based on built-in blueprints such as website slowness, JavaScript errors and HTTP status codes. You can configure the SmartAlert to be delivered on an alert channel of choice when the synthetic test for a location fails.
Benefits
Instantly see where slowdowns occur, what the problem is and how far the impact reaches
Pinpoint performance bottlenecks, resource anomalies and operational issues in real-time
Capture trace and metric data across multiple platforms and services to improve visibility for engineering teams
With in-depth visibility into incidents, identify the cause and isolate the incriminating source code
Monitor and optimize end user experiences across endpoints with cloud-native digital experience monitoring software.
Mobile application monitoring with IBM Instana Observability helps you identify and address issues quickly to reduce the risk of user frustration or churn.
Deliver an exceptional web experience to customers with insightful context and faster issue resolution.