We are happy to announce the release of Sematext Synthetics. With Synthetics, you can monitor availability (uptime) of APIs and websites. You can also monitor your website performance and user journeys.
Sematext Synthetics monitors your APIs/websites 24×7 from multiple locations around the globe and alerts you when they fail or perform poorly. Sematext Synthetics also provides detailed reports on their availability and performance.
With the addition of Synthetics to Sematext Cloud along with infrastructure monitoring, log management, and real user monitoring, you get end-to-end visibility to your application performance.
With Sematext Synthetics, you can:
- Monitor the availability of your APIs and track their performance
- Monitor SSL certificate expiration time
- Monitor your websites and track various web performance metrics like page load time, paint metrics, etc.
- Monitor individual resource performance in a website by domain, type and response code and identify the slowest resources
- Monitor third-party resources performance
- Investigate slow pages & identify bottlenecks using a waterfall chart
- Script user journeys with custom assertions based on contents of the webpage
- Collect custom metrics from your sites and track them
- Benchmark against competitors
- Create custom dashboards and alerts based on Synthetic performance metrics
- Debug downtimes with end-to-end visibility of your application performance
- Get alerted when things fail via multiple alert channels like emails, Slack, Pager Duty, WebHooks, etc.
Check out this short video for more info.