Splunk O11y Cloud Explained: Synthetic Monitoring

This video introduces synthetic monitoring within Splunk Observability, showcasing how it enables organisations to track uptime, performance, and create dashboards to report on SLAs for availability. Synthetic monitoring helps optimise user journeys by evaluating and improving page speed and functionality across all page resources. Key features such as film strips, screenshots, and recorded playback allow viewers to see exactly how end-users experience a site, both on web and mobile. Additionally, competitive benchmarks provide insights that help prioritise performance improvements against industry standards.

The video further explores how synthetic monitoring can be practically applied by setting up a 24/7 monitoring solution to check real-time performance and user journeys for an online store. By tracking essential metrics, such as time to first byte, it highlights how delays impacting the user experience can be identified and addressed. The walkthrough concludes by emphasising the range of insights gained, including the ability to pinpoint latency issues and explore further details with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools.