Synthetic Monitoring

synthetic monitoring refers to the practice of actively and continuously testing your applications, apis, or endpoints by simulating user or system interactions unlike passive monitoring, which observes real user traffic, synthetic monitoring proactively generates artificial requests or transactions to measure availability, response time, and correctness from various locations or environments this enables teams to identify outages, performance degradations, and sla violations before they affect real users it helps troubleshoot issues related to connectivity, dns, security certificates, and api health, gaining insights into "last mile" network performance and endpoint reliability in opentelemetry, synthetic monitoring can be implemented using the httpcheck receiver, which sends real http/https requests at configurable intervals and collects detailed timing and status metrics https //docs kloudmate com/synthetic monitoring