Examples for monitoring applications and services using Splunk Synthetics

Fictional examples demonstrating how to use Splunk Synthetic Monitoring for various use cases, such as monitoring performance of a user-facing application.

The following examples feature scenarios from Buttercup Industries, a fictitious e-commerce company. Kai, a site reliability engineer at the Buttercup e-commerce company, shares the stories of how they use Splunk Synthetics and Splunk Observability Cloud to monitor and take action on their applications and services.

Test type

Example

Browser test

Monitor a multi-step workflow using a Browser test

API test

Monitor API performance for a critical workflow

Uptime test

Monitor the performance of a user-facing application

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