Synthetic Monitoring vs Real User Monitoring (RUM): The Difference

<h2> Why monitor your website? </h2> <p>When your business depends on your website it is essential that it’s functioning correctly. Downtime, slow pages or important functions,

<p>Your API returns 200 OK. Great. But is it actually <em>working</em>?</p> <p>I learned this the hard way. Last month, our payment webhook was "up" — returning 200s all day — but

<p>Synthetic monitoring tools all promise the same thing — catch the broken checkout before your users do — and then bill you in seven different ways for it. The hard part of

<p>Every engineer on call knows the dread of an alert blaring at 3:17 AM.</p> <p>You stumble out of bed, pry open your laptop with one eye open, SSH into production, check CPU