Monitor the performance of a user-facing application

Fictional example describing how to proactively prevent issues with a user-facing application or site using an uptime test from Splunk Synthetic Monitoring.

Kai, a site reliability engineer at Buttercup Industries, a fictitious e-commerce company, uses Splunk Synthetic Monitoring to monitor the performance of the Buttercup Industries site. Kai’s example demonstrates how uptime test monitoring can help keep you ahead of potential issues with your organization’s site or application.

Set an Uptime test to monitor a mobile app endpoint

Buttercup Industries has a large conference coming up. To support the sales team for the conference, Kai sets up an Uptime test to monitor the uptime of an endpoint for the Buttercup Sales mobile app. The sales team can uses the app to add new leads.

This is how Kai creates an Uptime test named Buttercup sales mobile app for this example.

Screenshot of a browser test. Kai adds the URL, location details, and runs the test at a frequency of 10 minutes. Round robin and Active are set to on.

Learn more

To learn how to set up an Uptime test, see Set up an Uptime test.

For an overview of the results and diagnostics that Uptime tests capture, see Interpret Uptime test results.