Synthetic monitoring

Synthetic monitoring runs your recorded test cases on a schedule against your live application. It checks that critical flows such as sign-in and purchase journeys keep working and that pages stay fast, including during low-traffic periods when real users might not notice a problem.

CloudQA uses the same recorded test cases for monitoring that you use for regression testing, so you don’t build monitors from scratch. With synthetic monitoring you can:

• Simulate business-critical journeys by replaying recorded test cases.
• Confirm that your application is available and performing well.
• Cut troubleshooting time by comparing many test executions, objects, dependencies and events.

Note

Not sure which journeys to monitor, or how often? Contact CloudQA and the team will help you set it up.

Set up monitoring

CloudQA can monitor both test case flows and URLs.

1. Open Synthetic Monitoring and add a test case.
2. Search for and select the test case, set the frequency and save.
3. Select the test case to view its results.

Review results

Results include:

• Availability analysis and performance analysis
• The SLA report and KPI trends
• Execution information
• Step results: select a status to open the step results page

To be alerted when a monitored flow fails or slows down, set up monitoring notifications and threshold values.