Synthetic Monitoring by Kentik ensures amazing digital experiences by monitoring digital experience across network infrastructure, multi-cloud, and SaaS applications. It runs page load and web transaction tests at intervals you choose, constantly monitoring application performance between end users, offices, data centers, and public clouds.

Features

• Network Monitoring and Testing: See real and test traffic in one window for monitoring clarity and reduced workload. Plan synthetic tests based on actual network traffic and have them update when patterns change.
• Performance Troubleshooting: Be alerted to performance problems based on real traffic patterns. Quickly zoom into specific tests and learn details of your traffic’s path to narrow down the source of problems. Immediately see nodes with excessive latency, packet loss, and/or jitter.
• BGP Event Monitoring: Monitor BGP events including hijacks, path changes, route leaks, and invalid RPKI status.
• User Experience Monitoring: Emulate the performance of global users from any region in public cloud providers. Use over 200 public agents and augment with private agents in your own network. Test web apps using app agents, page loads, and transactions. Manage agents, tests, and data with an API.
• State of the Internet Monitoring: Monitor the state of SaaS applications, in and between public clouds, DNS service providers. Use hundreds of agents located across the globe or deploy your own to monitor what’s important to you. Quickly identify root cause — whether it’s infrastructure, the cloud, or an application.
• Performance Mesh Testing: Set up complex, multi-site performance mesh tests with just a few clicks and view hundreds of results simultaneously. Mesh view and visual cues show problems at a glance. Click any cell to view performance metrics and drill down to the root cause of issues.
• DNS and Website Availability: Ensure DNS and web servers are always up so websites and web-based applications are always available. Select agents for an accurate picture of server availability, resolution time, and returned results, including IP addresses and MX records. Configure alerts for failures, query time deviations, or anomalies over time.

Benefits

• Enhanced Monitoring Clarity: See real and test traffic in one window for reduced workload.
• Efficient Troubleshooting: Quickly identify and resolve performance problems.
• Comprehensive BGP Monitoring: Monitor BGP events for enhanced security.
• Global User Experience: Emulate global user performance from any region.
• State of the Internet Insights: Understand the state of SaaS applications and public clouds.
• Performance Mesh Testing: Set up and view complex performance tests easily.
• Reliable DNS and Website Availability: Ensure continuous availability of DNS and web servers.