Course Overview
This course is designed for developers concerned with integrating performance testing into their release processes, and for SREs concerned with web availability monitoring, enterprise application monitoring, and SLA reporting. Splunk Synthetic Monitoring is built primarily for DevOps and IT Ops teams proactively monitoring critical business workflows. However, the course can be taken by anyone who needs 24/7 visibility into the performance of web services for customers and employees around the world.
This course describes how to identify the appropriate use cases for synthetic tests, create uptime tests for monitoring site availability, create robust browser tests for monitoring critical browser-based workflows, and use API tests to monitor back-end services and API-powered workflows. You will be able to create custom dashboards and charts to proactively troubleshoot and optimize web performance based on synthetic metrics.
Who should attend
- Devops/SREs
- Developers
Prerequisites
To be successful, students must have completed these Splunk Education course(s) or have equivalent working knowledge:
- Introduction to Splunk Observability Cloud (eLearning)
- Introduction to Splunk Synthetic Monitoring (eLearning)
- Introduction to Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (eLearning)
Outline: Using Splunk Synthetic Monitoring (USSM)
Module 1 – Explore Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
- Identify use cases for synthetic monitoring
- View and interpret Uptime tests
- View and interpret Browser tests
- View and interpret API tests
- Identify configuration needs for Synthetic tests
Module 2 – Create Uptime Tests
- Use best practices to create Uptime tests
- Setup and configure Uptime tests
- Identify available Uptime test metrics
- Alert on Uptime tests
Module 3 – Create Browser Tests
- Use best practices to create Browser tests
- Setup and configure Browser tests
- Identify available Browser test metrics
- Alert on Browser tests
Module 4 – Create API Tests
- Use best practices to create API tests
- Setup and configure API tests
- Identify available API test metrics
- Alert on API tests
Module 5 – Troubleshoot Site Performance Using Synthetic Tests
- Use custom dashboards for efficient troubleshooting
- Find insights using analytics in charts
- Create detectors for common use cases