Synthetic Monitoring Flashcards
The 3 types of synthetic monitoring are?
Single-URL browser monitors, browser clickpaths, and HTTP monitors
What options do you have in the Synthetic area?
- Create a browser monitor
2. Create a HTTP monitor
6 Device profile settings of a browser monitor
- Device type
- Device Orientation
- Screen size
- Bandwidth (download, upload, latency)
- Mobile device slider (if custom device type choosen)
- User agent
Additional options of a browser monitor
- Enable global login authentication
- Enable additional HTTP headers
- Bypass Content Security Policy
- Block specific requests
- Set cookies
- Capture metrics for pages loaded in frames
How to enable the “Allow in incognito” permission
- Install Dynatrace Synthetic Recorder
- Navigate to Manage Extensions
- Enable “Allow in incognito”/”“Allow in InPrivate”
- Refresh
2 options to create a clickpath
- Record it
2. Manually add clickpath events
What are the 2 types of locators?
- DOM locator
2. CSS locator
What are the 7 types of a synthetic event?
- Javascript
- Click
- Select option
- Tap
- Navigate
- Cookie
- Keystrokes
How can you monitor a internal URL?
set up a private synthetic location
What do you need to assign to a synthetic location?
Assign at least one synthetic-enabled ActiveGate.
Frequency of synthetic monitor
5, 10, 15, 30 (min)
1, 2, 4 (h)
Monitoring analytics of HTTP monitor
- Availability
- Response time
- Response size
- HTTP status codes
Monitoring frequence of HTTP monitor
1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60 (min)
Alerting settings of HTTP monitor
- Generate problem/send alert if monitor unavailable at all locations
- Generate problem/send alert if monitor unavailable for one or more consecutive runs at any location
4 advantages of using the script mode?
- autocompletion
- syntax highlight
- instant error validation
- playback path without saving
