What is Synthetic Monitoring?

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What is Synthetic Monitoring? How much does an online retailer lose if their external web marketplace goes down for even a minute? How much productivity is lost when a payroll or other important internal service fails or is extremely slow? The answers are different for each organization, but the costs are significant. In case the services are being accessed by users external to the organization, the cost of downtime or slow time is even higher. 100% uptime is the objective for all companies, but even a small percentage of downtime or slow time can be incredibly expensive and damaging to the organization’s brand. All types of firms, from eCommerce to manufacturing, need an accurate synthetic monitoring system to ensure efficient operations.

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Synthetic monitoring tracks simulated user transactions so that problems and issues can be quickly discovered and corrected, ideally before users notice and complain. By proactively monitoring IT services end-to-end, synthetic monitoring delivers insight into the performance of the entire service delivery chain — i.e., every IT infrastructure tier supporting the service. IT managers rely on synthetic monitoring to learn about issues before users call in and can, therefore, proactively correct problems before end users are impacted.

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