Testing in production with Synthetics: See it before they do (part 1)

User experience is critical, so why wait for our users to encounter issues? You might have monitoring, but monitoring depends on user interactions. So, if you want to see issues before your users see the, you should test in production? For this, you can use Synthetic Monitoring.

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how you can use Synthetic Monitoring to proactively measure performance, monitor uptime, simulate user journeys, and receive alerts before your users ever notice a problem.

By running Synthetics against the Quick Pizza app, you’ll get to know the why, what, and how of production testing using Synthetic Monitoring. You’ll see how synthetic combines observability and testing by simulating real user behavior in your live environment.

We’ll cover:
1. How synthetics catch undetected issues and enables proactive monitoring.
2. How Synthetic Monitoring works, from simulating user journeys to real-time SLAs
3. How to set up alerts that help you act before issues escalate.
4. How to deploy everything in a fully automated manner