Synthetic Tests with Datadog

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1. Synthetic Tests Datadog By: Kyrie Camacho
2. Contents • WHAT IS SYNTHETIC TEST • RUM • BENEFITS • TEST ⚬ FLOW ⚬ CONFIGURATION ⚬ RECORDER ⚬ REPORTS
3. What is Synthetic Tests? IT’S A PROACTIVE MONITORING WHICH IDENTIFY PERFORMANCE ISSUES BY SIMULATING REAL USER INTERACTION WITH THE SYSTEM. Synthetic tests mimic real user traffic by sending simulated requests to your applications and services from different browsers, devices, and locations around the world.
4. Real Life Monitoring (RUM) Synthetic Test Monitoring Real-world performance data for your end-users “Passive” measurement Helps discover pages/apps that should be use for Synthethic tests Measure and baseline your key website pages and journey performance within all your environments “Active” measurement Monitor performance 24x7
5. Benefits of using Synthetic Tests Code-free test Web recorders and other GUI-based test creation tools allow any team member to independently create and run tests Managed and private locations Running tests from a variety of locations helps ensure that all of your users can access your application, no matter where they are in the world. Alerts Integrate with email and other communication tools, so you can route notifications to the right teams when a test fails. Troubleshooting context Allow you to pivot from test failures to related traces, logs, host- level metrics, and network data, which makes it easier to troubleshoot. Visualization tools Keep track of synthetic test results with dashboards, graphs, and other visualizations. This allows you to spot trends and compare the current and historical performance of your applications.
6. How Synthetic Tests Work
7. Syntethic Tests Test Flow Input username Sucess 1.90s Login popup Sucess 0.80s Input password Sucess 0.58s Login button Sucess 11.9s Redirect Home Failed 30.98s Login Scenario Location: Japan Platform: Chrome
8. RUM Configuration
9. Test Recorder
10. Test Result
11. Test Coverage
12. Real example (browsing)
13. END