The Synthetic Monitoring sub-service of Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS) deploys detection points in a variety of regions around the globe to simulate how users access online services under different network conditions, and continuously monitor the availability and performance of networks, websites, and file transfer. You can use visualized dashboards to view monitoring data and perform multidimensional real-time analysis on the data. You can also create alert rules for metrics to detect anomalies and ensure service stability.
From June 1, 2024, Synthetic Monitoring will no longer provide the pay-as-you-go billing method and subscription resources for new users. For more information, see [Product changes] Discontinuation of the activation of Synthetic Monitoring.
Benefits
Support for multiple protocols: monitors mainstream protocols (such as ping, TCP, traceroute, and HTTP(S)), performance of websites with browsers, and file transfer speed. The availability and performance of online services are monitored from multiple dimensions.
Global detection points: deploys detection points around the world, monitors network performance in real time, and ensures service availability and performance worldwide.
Fault location and diagnostics: uses the advanced traceroute technology to quickly detect and locate network faults, and provides detailed reports and solutions.
Real-time alerting and alert notifications: provides the real-time alerting feature. If a service error occurs, alert notifications are sent so that you can fix the error at the earliest opportunity.
Data visualization: provides distinct monitoring data and reports so that you can view the network status, performance, and fault analysis.
Scenarios
Network performance monitoring: helps enterprises and individual users monitor network conditions in real time to ensure service stability and availability.
Service availability verification: simulates requests and detects the availability and response time of services to ensure user experience.
Troubleshooting: quickly discovers network faults, provides detailed fault reports and suggestions, and helps you efficiently handle the faults.
Network optimization and adjustment: provides network performance data to help you optimize network architecture, adjust service deployment, and improve network performance and user experience.
Service quality reports: generates custom service quality reports at regular intervals to help enterprises monitor network conditions and service quality, and improve decision-making.
Online business monitoring: helps small and medium-sized enterprises and large multinational companies actively and comprehensively monitor the network status, performance, and user experience of their online services.
Terms
Term | Description |
data center detection point | Data center detection points are monitoring nodes deployed in data centers. Located in high-speed, high-availability network environments of data centers, these detection points help you detect the performance and stability of network links, and monitor the connectivity and performance of backbone networks, carrier networks, and data center networks. Data center detection points are suitable for monitoring network links between enterprises and data centers, or scenarios that require high network performance. |
Lastmile detection point | Lastmile detection points are monitoring nodes deployed in network environments close to end users. These detection points can better simulate the network experience about accessing services, and reflect network conditions in different geographical locations, network environments, and carrier networks. Lastmile detection points are suitable for monitoring the network experience of end users, and helping enterprises optimize network services and improve user satisfaction. |
mobile device detection point | Deployed in cellular networks, mobile device detection points are mainly used to detect and monitor the network experience of cellular network users. Mobile device detection points can simulate the performance and availability when users use mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to access network services over 3G and 4G networks. These detection points help enterprises monitor the mobile user access from different geographical locations, network environments, and carrier networks. With the help of mobile device detection points, enterprises can better monitor the network experience of mobile users, discover potential performance issues, and optimize network architecture and service strategies accordingly to improve the satisfaction and experience of mobile users. |
cloud host detection point | Cloud host detection points are monitoring nodes deployed in Alibaba Cloud to detect and monitor the performance and availability of services in cloud computing environments. |
Use Synthetic Monitoring
Synthetic Monitoring allows you to create and manage scheduled synthetic monitoring tasks by using the ARMS console or API.
After you create a scheduled task, you can create alert rules for specific metrics to detect anomalies. For more information, see Synthetic Monitoring alert rules.
References
Synthetic Monitoring charges fees based on the number of synthetic tests. For more information, see Billing.
Synthetic Monitoring supports a wide variety of carriers around the world, and provides detection points to monitor cloud hosts, PCs, and mobile devices. For more information about detection points, see Detection points.