{"id":19564,"date":"2020-11-25T02:35:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T02:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=19564"},"modified":"2021-10-29T05:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T05:42:42","slug":"new-relic-synthetics-getting-started-step-by-step-tutorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/new-relic-synthetics-getting-started-step-by-step-tutorials\/","title":{"rendered":"NewRelic Synthetics getting started Step by step tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Synthetic monitoring<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Synthetic monitoring is a monitoring technique that is done by using an emulation or scripted recordings of transactions. Behavioral scripts are created to simulate an action or path that a customer or end-user would take on a site, application or other software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Real User Monitoring<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Real user monitoring (RUM) is a passive monitoring technology that analyzes all user interaction with a website or client interacting with a server or cloud-based application. Monitoring actual user interaction with a website or an application is important to operators to determine if users are being served quickly and without errors and, if not, which part of a business process is failing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Real user monitoring (RUM) is a passive monitoring technology that analyzes all user interaction with a website or client interacting with a server or cloud-based application. Monitoring actual user interaction with a website or an application is important to operators to determine if users are being served quickly and without errors and, if not, which part of a business process is failing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NewRelic Synthetic Use Scenario<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With synthetic monitoring, you can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Get the context of failures by connecting the availability and performance of endpoints to the underlying applications and infrastructure.<br>Easily diagnose if an issue stems from the network or AWS location, a slow third party resource, or the health of backend services or infrastructure.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b \u200b\u200b<\/li><li>Add synthetic monitoring into build automation and CI\/CD pipelines to automatically track performance and check functionality for each deployment.<\/li><li>Expand your monitoring further with real, Selenium-powered scripted browsers, which test login procedures, searches, and other critical business transactions.<\/li><li>Monitor your API endpoints with API tests.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Synthetic Monitoring vs. Real User Monitoring<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"603\" height=\"482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Synthetic-Monitoring-vs-Real-User-Monitoring.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Synthetic-Monitoring-vs-Real-User-Monitoring.png 603w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Synthetic-Monitoring-vs-Real-User-Monitoring-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"896\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Synthetic-Monitoring-vs-Real-User-Monitoring2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Synthetic-Monitoring-vs-Real-User-Monitoring2.jpg 896w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Synthetic-Monitoring-vs-Real-User-Monitoring2-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Synthetic-Monitoring-vs-Real-User-Monitoring2-768x417.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Types of monitors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Types-of-monitors.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Types-of-monitors.jpg 745w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Types-of-monitors-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NewRelic-Synthetics-getting-started-Step-by-step-tutorials.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">NewRelic-Synthetics-getting-started-Step-by-step-tutorials<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"epyt-gallery\" data-currpage=\"1\" id=\"epyt_gallery_24121\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_36695\"  width=\"760\" height=\"427\"  data-origwidth=\"760\" data-origheight=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  data-epytgalleryid=\"epyt_gallery_24121\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><div class=\"epyt-gallery-list\"><div>Sorry, there was a YouTube error.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synthetic monitoring Synthetic monitoring is a monitoring technique that is done by using an emulation or scripted recordings of transactions. 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