HTTP(s) Synthetic Monitor

• Log into the F5® Distributed Cloud Console.

• Navigate to either the Observability workspace tile or menu.

Note: The homepage is role based, and your homepage may look different due to your role customization. Select All Services drop-down menu to discover all options.

Figure: Observability Tile

Figure: Observability Menu

• Select Manage > Synthetic Monitors > HTTP Monitors.

Figure: Manage Menu

• Click Add HTTP Monitor.

• Enter Name, enter Labels and Description as needed.

Figure: Metadata

• Enter the URL that you would like to monitor.

• Set the monitor frequency Interval for how often you would like the monitor run from each source region configured later in the form.

Figure: URL and Interval

Note: Each source provider and region added will monitor the HTTP endpoint configured for the monitor. The combined health from all regions will generate the overall monitor's global health.

• In the Sources section, click Add Item to begin adding sources for the monitor.

Figure: Empty Sources

• Select the desired Provider for which you would like to source the monitor from.

• With the Provider selected, click the Regions dropdown and select which Region you would like the monitor to run from.

• Select additional regions from the dropdown if you would like to add more Regions for the current Provider.

Figure: Provider Regions

• Click Apply to add the current Provider and Regions to the monitor.

• Back in the primary Sources section, select Add Item and follow the steps above if you would like to add additional Providers and Regions.

Figure: Sources

• Select Save and Exit to save the new HTTP Synthetic Monitor.

• Alerting for Synthetic Monitoring can be configured similar to other F5® Distributed Cloud services following the Alerting how-to.

• Optionally, filter your Alert Policy to only send notifications to the receiver based on alerts coming from Synthetic Monitoring by either matching the Group to Synthetic-Monitors or matching the Alert Name to SyntheticMonitorHealthCritical

Figure: Alerting