Important Note
The old UI and its associated documentation are valid until the 2024.08.U1 release. The new UI and its related documentation will apply starting from the 2024.09.U1 release, see (New UI Document).Multiple types of synthetic monitors are available for managing your synthetics. In addition, synthetic monitors are configurable from one or more locations.
| Synthetic Monitor | Description |
|---|---|
| DNS | Track the time taken to resolve the DNS query. |
| FTP | Monitor FTP server |
| HTTP/HTTPS | Graph response time for your website over time. Drill down on recent outages and verify what is causing the performance degradation. |
| PING | Track response time and packet loss for an entire application. |
| POP3/IMAP/SMTP | Monitor email delivery rates. |
| RTT | Monitor the time taken for the email to drive from the SMTP server to IMAP or POP3 server. |
| SCRIPT-HTTP Synthetic Transaction | Monitor user experience, performance and availability issues during any website transaction running on a web browser. |
| SIP | Monitor the user VOIP communications availability or performance issues. |
| SSL | Replace SSL certificates before the expiration date. |
| TCP/UDP | Monitor the response time taken to connect to a port of TCP/UDP server. |