Multiple types of synthetic monitors are available for managing your synthetics. In addition, synthetic monitors are configurable from one or more locations.
| Synthetic Monitor | Description |
|---|---|
| HTTP / HTTPS | Graph response time for your website over time. Drill down on recent outages and verify what is causing the performance degradation. |
| DNS | Track the time taken to resolve the DNS query. |
| FTP | Monitor FTP server |
| PING | Track response time and packet loss for an entire application. |
| POP3 / IMAP / SMTP | Monitor email delivery rates. |
| RTT | Measure the time taken for data packets to travel from a source to a destination and back |
| SIP | Verifies the availability and performance of SIP-based communication systems. |
| SSL | Ensures the validity and security of SSL certificates for websites. |
| TCP / UDP | Monitor the response time taken to connect to a port of TCP/UDP server. |
| SCRIPT – HTTP Transaction | Monitor user experience, performance and availability issues during any website transaction running on a web browser. |