Interpret SSL test results

Every run of an SSL test in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring produces a set of diagnostics that help you understand the performance of your application in real time.

View Synthetics tests

On the Digital Experience > Synthetic tests page, you can view a customizable summary of recent run results to assess the performance of your test at a glance. You can sort the results, search for tests, or add filters to narrow down results.

Filter SSL tests

To see a list of the existing SSL tests:

  1. Navigate to Digital Experience > Synthetic tests.

  2. From the Test types dropdown, select SSL.

  3. You will see a list of existing SSL tests that can be sorted or filtered.

Take actions on SSL tests

Select an option from the Three-dot dropdown next an SSL test:

  • Edit test to edit your test configuration.

  • Actions > Pause test to pause your test.

  • Actions > Run test now to run your test immediately.

  • Create detector to create a CA certificate-level detector.

  • Copy test to make a copy of your test. This opens the New SSL test page with the details of the test pre-filled.

  • Test info to view test details such as the name, creation and update times, and detectors.

  • Detector test to delete the test.

View SSL test results and metrics

From your filtered list of SSL tests, you can select a test to view visualized results over time, an availability chart, as well as performance KPIs. In addition, below the Availability and Performance KPIs tabs, you can also directly select a row corresponding to an SSL test in the Recent run results table.

Select a data point in the Performance KPIs chart to drill down into a smaller time frame to examine more closely or add Location segmentations.

Customize the Performance KPIs chart

See Test performance KPIs.

View results for a specific run

To navigate to the Run results view for one run, select a data point in the Performance KPIs chart with the visualization interval at Run level and the segmentation set to Location.

If you’re viewing aggregate data (for example, at a 20-minute interval instead of run level), selecting a data point zooms you in to see run-level detail. Then you can select a specific run to see the Run results from there.

View recent and all run results

You can also directly select a row corresponding to an SSL test in the Recent run results table below the Performance KPIs chart to access its individual run details.

To see a list of all the test results, select Recent run results > Go to all run results. This will show you detailed certificate chain information, validation outcomes, and SSL-specific metrics.

Run results timeline

The Run results for SSL tests has several components that show the successful and failed validations, the certificate and issuer in a preview and source view, and the request information under the timeline that highlights request events during the test.

This table shows you how to view and interpret the results from the different components of the Run results page.
UI Component Information
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Shows you whether the test was successful, the location where the test was executed, the test duration, and the test status (Scheduled/Disabled).
Timeline Plots the request events over the duration of the test.
Validations Displays the assertions that were executed during the test and whether the test was successful or failed.
Certificate Provides certificate details as an interactive tree with the ability to expand or collapse sections. You can view a Preview of the response or the Source that shows JSON in plain text.
Issuer Similar to Certificate but provides the issuer details instead, enabling you to view more or less detail by expanding or collapsing the interactive tree. You can view a Preview of the response or the Source that shows JSON in plain text.
Request information Shows the requested host, port, DNS time duration, TCP connect time, TLS time, and the test duration.

This screenshot below examples of the components discussed above.

Metrics for SSL tests

Every run of an SSL test produces a set of metrics depicting the state of your certificate. See SSL test metrics for a complete list of these metrics.