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Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring is a service that simulates user traffic against your endpoints to quantify health and performance historically and in real-time. By leveraging F5® Distributed Cloud Synthetic Monitoring, you can reduce Mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) of application issues by quantifying the overall external digital experience of an application using real-time and historic uptime, performance, and health analytics. Sourced from global regions, Synthetic Monitoring enables analytics and insights for you to help establish a baseline for digital experience metrics and quickly understand the blast radius and impact of application issues and outages. Configure Alert Policies so that your teams are notified of critical events prior to your customers calling in.

Figure: Monitor Dashboard

Figure: Monitor Dashboard

Synthetic Monitoring Features

  1. HTTP(s) Monitors

    • HTTP(s) Synthetic Monitors allow you to validate the health of HTTP(s) endpoints based on response code, response string, performance, and other application critical metrics. The monitor can adapt to your application needs allowing for custom request headers, request body, and more. Once configured, you are able to visualize and compare response performance and health from any configured source region that your customers may be coming from.

  2. TLS Report

    • In addition to performance and health, HTTP(s) Synthetic Monitors also generate a TLS Report once per day to provide an overall TLS score for your TLS enabled endpoints. The report provides insight into protocols, ciphers, vulnerabilities, and insight into how the score was derived. Quickly download a pdf or copy the report into your clipboard in order to share with teams across your organization that need it the most.

  3. DNS Monitors

    • DNS Synthetic Monitors allow you to validate the configuration, record response type, as well as health and performance of internet self-hosted DNS nameservers. Record types supported today include A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, TXT, SOA, and SRV. Once configured, you are able to visualize and compare response performance and health from any configured source region that your customers may be coming from.

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