Top 5 Reasons Why You Need Synthetic Monitoring

Why you need synthetic monitoring when you have real data on real users

You must have a complete end-to-end view of your application — from your data center to the end users' experience — to proactively detect performance issues, quantify their business impact, and accelerate resolution.

There are two complementary approaches to measuring end-user experience, and you need both to deliver the application performance required by today’s hyper-connected end-users.

  • Real-user monitoring collects data on real users’ actual experiences and behaviors as they interact with your websites and applications.
  • Synthetic monitoring uses geographically dispersed agents to collect performance data from scheduled tests that simulate the way users interact with your websites and applications.

You may wonder, “Why synthetic when I have real data on real users?”

Read this to learn why.