Managing synthetic transactions and events

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Create synthetic transactions that monitor the performance and availability of internal applications and external applications.

Create a synthetic transaction in the Synthetic Script Manager. Generate simple scripts in the Synthetic Script Manager to test the availability of an application, or use Selenium IDE to record synthetic scripts that replicate different user actions with an application. Then, configure a synthetic transaction to play back your script at specific intervals and playback locations.

Your available playback locations are the locations where you installed the Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback.

Create thresholds and resource groups to raise events and notify stakeholders when your applications are slow or unavailable. View performance data and generate historical reports in the Application Performance Dashboard.

If you monitor end-user response time for an application with the Response Time agent, you can view KPIs for both end-user and synthetic transactions in the Application Performance Dashboard. Add synthetic transactions as components to the application that you are monitoring with the Response Time agent.

Note: To work in Synthetics Script Manager, you must be a member of a role that has view permission for Synthetic Script Manager and Agent Configuration. For more information, see Roles and permissions.