Splunk Synthetics

In this section, you will learn how to use Splunk Synthetics to monitor the performance and availability of your applications.

15 minutes

Persona

Putting your SRE hat back on, you have been asked to set up monitoring for the Online Boutique. You need to ensure that the application is available and performing well 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could have 24/7 monitoring of our application, and be alerted when there is a problem? This is where Synthetics comes in. We will show you a simple test that runs every 1 minute and checks the performance and availability of a typical user journey through the Online Boutique.