Agent skill

synthetic-monitoring

Implement synthetic monitoring and automated testing to simulate user behavior and detect issues before users. Use when creating end-to-end test scenarios, monitoring API flows, or validating user workflows.

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SKILL.md

Synthetic Monitoring

Table of Contents

Overview

Set up synthetic monitoring to automatically simulate real user journeys, API workflows, and critical business transactions to detect issues and validate performance.

When to Use

  • End-to-end workflow validation
  • API flow testing
  • User journey simulation
  • Transaction monitoring
  • Critical path validation

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

javascript
// synthetic-tests.js
const { chromium } = require("playwright");

class SyntheticMonitor {
  constructor(config = {}) {
    this.baseUrl = config.baseUrl || "https://app.example.com";
    this.timeout = config.timeout || 30000;
  }

  async testUserFlow() {
    const browser = await chromium.launch();
    const page = await browser.newPage();
    const metrics = { steps: {} };
    const startTime = Date.now();

    try {
      // Step 1: Navigate to login
      let stepStart = Date.now();
      await page.goto(`${this.baseUrl}/login`, { waitUntil: "networkidle" });
      metrics.steps.navigation = Date.now() - stepStart;

      // Step 2: Perform login
      stepStart = Date.now();
      await page.fill('input[name="email"]', "test@example.com");
      await page.fill('input[name="password"]', "password123");
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide Contents
Synthetic Tests with Playwright Synthetic Tests with Playwright
API Synthetic Tests API Synthetic Tests
Scheduled Synthetic Monitoring Scheduled Synthetic Monitoring

Best Practices

✅ DO

  • Test critical user journeys
  • Simulate real browser conditions
  • Monitor from multiple locations
  • Track response times
  • Alert on test failures
  • Rotate test data
  • Test mobile and desktop
  • Include error scenarios

❌ DON'T

  • Test with production data
  • Reuse test accounts
  • Skip timeout configurations
  • Ignore test maintenance
  • Test too frequently
  • Hard-code credentials
  • Ignore geographic variations
  • Test only happy paths

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