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Synthetic Monitoring Guides

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General Guides:

Identify Synthetic bots

Clone your Synthetic tests

Alerting:

Use monitors in Synthetic tests

Understand how Synthetic test retries determine monitor status

Monitor website uptime with SLOs

API:

Create your API tests with the API

Manage your browser tests programmatically

Best Practices:

Avoid cache issues in Synthetic tests

Monitor your HTTP requests are redirected into HTTPS

Reuse browser tests journeys across your test suite

Use custom JavaScript assertions in browser tests

Use email validation in browser tests

Upload and download test files

Handle pop-ups in browser tests

Record steps with a custom User-Agent

Manually add the Chrome extension for your browser tests

Run tests on applications using a shadow DOM

Create HTTP tests with hash-based message authentication code (HMAC) authentication

Datadog Integrations:

Ease troubleshooting with cross-product correlation

Explore a preview of RUM features in Synthetics

Generate Synthetic browser tests from RUM Session Replays

Metrics:

Use estimated usage metrics

Use Synthetic metrics in monitors

Understand API test timings and troubleshoot variations

Data Security:

Use authentication in API and multistep API tests

Use time-based one-time passwords (TOTPs) for multi-factor authentication (MFA) in browser tests

Use passkeys (FIDO2) in browser tests