Proactively monitor availability and performance with New Relic Synthetics

Synthetics is all about proactive monitoring without using agents, and offers a wide variety of use cases for monitoring availability, functionality, and performance.  You can use New Relic Synthetics to run automated tests to find out where specific errors and slow pages are, so you can deliver the best digital customer experience.  

In this practical workshop you’ll get to explore the different ways to leverage the power of Synthetic monitors to help you track, optimize and alert on the parts of your systems or websites which matter most to you or your business.  

You’ll set up different monitors for specific use cases like critical-pathway testing or API tests, use them to report on your SLAs / SLOs, chart their performance with dashboards, and use powerful NRQL alerts to notify you of issues.  

The format of this session will include best practices, challenge based labs, discussions and collaborative activities resulting in takeaways you can immediately apply to your accounts or organization’s requirements. 

• Synthetics and Proactive monitoring 
• Use Cases and scenarios:  
• Availability 
• Functionality 
• Performance 
• Synthetic Monitor types 
• Ping
• Simple Browser
• Scripted Browser
• API Test
• SLA’s and Reporting on your Monitors
• Aggregate and Individual Monitors
• Dashboards to chart Monitor performance
• Field testing vs RUM: Comparative charting
• Secure credentials
• Private Locations
• Alerts for your Monitors
• Synthetic Alerts
• NRQL Alerts