Managing synthetics monitoring
In this recipe, we’ll keep improving the observability of our application by introducing another feature: synthetic monitoring.
Synthetic monitoring allows you to simulate, track, and visualize the performance of critical user journeys. We will set up a browser monitor that runs periodically and use the synthetic application to analyze the results.
Getting ready
Make sure that you’ve followed all the steps in the previous recipe, Monitoring Kubernetes environments with Elastic Agent.
How to do it…
The goal of this recipe is to set up a browser monitor that simulates a user browsing for a random product on the website and placing an order:
- In Kibana, navigate to Observability | Synthetics | Monitors to configure our browser monitors. Since this is our first monitor, click on select a different monitor type in the create monitor popup:
Figure 10.24 – Selecting a different...
