- Observability: other versions:
- What is Elastic Observability?
- What’s new in 8.4
- Send data to Elasticsearch
- Spin up the Elastic Stack
- Deploy Elastic Agent to send data
- Deploy Beats to send data
- Elastic Serverless Forwarder for AWS
- Deploy serverless forwarder
- Configuration options
- Troubleshooting
- Observability overview page
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Log monitoring
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Uptime and synthetic monitoring
- User Experience
- Alerting
- Cases
- CI/CD observability
- Troubleshooting
- Fields reference
- Tutorials
- Monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Elastic Agent
- Monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Beats
- Monitor Google Cloud Platform
- Monitor a Java application
- Monitor Kubernetes
- Monitor Microsoft Azure with Elastic Agent
- Monitor Microsoft Azure with the native Azure integration
- Monitor Microsoft Azure with Beats
Use synthetic monitors
editUse synthetic monitors
editThis functionality is in beta and is subject to change. The design and code is less mature than official GA features and is being provided as-is with no warranties. Beta features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
Synthetic monitoring extends traditional end-to-end testing techniques because it allows your tests to run continuously on the cloud. With synthetic monitoring in the Uptime app, you can assert that your application continues to work after a deployment by reusing the same journeys that you used to validate the software on your machine.
You can use synthetic monitors to detect bugs caused by invalid states you couldn’t predict and didn’t write tests for. Synthetic monitors can also help you catch bugs in features that don’t get much traffic by allowing you to periodically simulate users' actions.
Start by learning the basics of synthetic monitoring, including how to:
Then explore more synthetic monitoring topics to get the most out of your tests, including:
Finally, learn how to view and interpret data from your synthetic monitors in the Uptime app: