Synthetic Monitoring

Proactive synthetic monitoring that simulates real user behavior across the world, helping you detect API issues, service failures, HTTP or SSL problems before they impact your customers.

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Middleware Synthetic Monitoring is a proactive, code-free solution that simulates real user flows across APIs, browsers, and mobile to catch issues before customers are impacted. Run multi-step tests on schedules, chain API requests, apply assertions, and monitor endpoints from global locations. Detailed timing data and real-time alerts help your team jump-start investigations the moment an issue occurs, consistently delivering reliable user experiences.

Works Well With

Browser

APM

RUM

  • End-point PerformanceEnd-point Performance

  • Improve MTTRImprove MTTR

  • API MonitoringAPI Monitoring

  • Debug FasterDebug Faster

  • Deep VisibilityDeep Visibility

  • Status PageStatus Page

Track API/Endpoint Performance

Track End-point Performance

  • Automate synthetic checks for APIs and endpoint performance tracking at set time intervals.
  • Monitor service performance and receive alerts for poor performance or downtime.
  • Support for multiple protocols (HTTP, SSL, DNS, TCP, Websocket, UDP, ICMP, and gRPC).
Improve MTTR

Improve MTTR

  • Receive instant alerts when synthetic tests fail or performance drops.
  • Identify performance issues with detailed time graphs to quickly identify the root cause
  • Visualize application uptime and performance data alongside key business metrics, helping you track your SLAs and SLOs.
Multi-Step API Monitoring

Multi-Step API Monitoring

  • Verify key user flows at the API level by chaining API requests together in multistep tests.
  • Chain steps together using response information from previous calls.
  • Support for authentication and complex API workflows.
Debug Faster

Debug Faster

  • View breakdown of network timing data and response time by location.
  • Run browser-based tests to simulate real user interactions and validate end-to-end journeys.
  • Add meaningful assertions to confirm user experience.
  • Identify performance issues with detailed time graphs.
Visibility and Insights

Visibility and Insights

  • Visualize application performance and uptime data alongside key business metrics.
  • Monitor and maintain SLAs with proactive performance tracking.
  • Get complete visibility into application performance and uptime.
Public Status Page

Public Status Page

  • Share real-time service uptime and availability with customers through a public status page.
  • Track API and webpage performance across locations and alert on degraded performance.
  • Build transparency and trust by publishing service health updates.

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Launch synthetic checks across HTTP, SSL, DNS, WebSocket, and gRPC with no setup overhead, no agents. Get instant visibility into uptime and performance.

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FAQs

Everything you want to know about the Synthetic Monitoring

What is Synthetic Monitoring?

Synthetic monitoring runs automated scripts to simulate real user/API interactions, proactively testing availability, performance, and functionality from global locations, catching issues before users notice.

How to set up synthetic tests in Middleware?

Navigate to Synthetic Monitoring → Add New Test from the sidebar. Select protocol (HTTP/API, browser, multi-step), enter URL/endpoint, set assertions (status=200, response <500ms), choose locations + frequency, then Save. Tests run instantly, no agents needed, results correlate automatically with APM/infra data. Live in 2 minutes.

When to use synthetic monitoring?

Synthetic monitoring is a proactive monitoring solution that enables you to automate API monitoring endpoints.

What types of protocols are supported by Middleware's Synthetic Monitoring?

Middleware's Synthetic Monitoring supports multiple protocols, including HTTP, SSL, DNS, TCP, Websocket, UDP, ICMP, and gRPC.

Can I monitor the multi-step API?

Yes, Middleware’s synthetic monitor allows you to monitor a complex API that requires multiple steps (ex, 1st step for authentication and next step to retrieve data). You can use responses from previous steps as input for the following steps.

Can I run API tests from multiple locations?

Yes, you can select multiple locations from where you want to test your API endpoint.

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