Advanced Synthetics

Proactively find and fix performance issues across user flows, business transactions and APIs to deliver better digital experiences.

Introduction #

This workshop walks you through using the Chrome DevTools Recorder ↗ to create a synthetic test on a Splunk demonstration environment or on your own public website.

The exported JSON from the Chrome DevTools Recorder will then be used to create a Splunk Synthetic Monitoring Real Browser Test.

Pre-requisites #

• Google Chrome Browser installed
• Publicly browser-accessible URL
• Access to Splunk Observability Cloud

Supporting resources #

1. Lantern: advanced Selectors for multistep browser tests ↗
2. Chrome for Developers DevTools Tips ↗
3. web.dev Core Web Vitals ↗ reference