Overview

You can use metrics generated from your Synthetic tests to create metric monitors in addition to the Synthetic monitor created with your test.

With metric monitors, you can accomplish the following:

• Monitor the total response time
• Scope on specific HTTP timings such as DNS, the DNS resolution, and TCP connection
• Access tags added to metrics coming from Synthetic tests

This guide demonstrates how to set up a metric monitor using a general metric such as synthetics.test_runs.

Create a metric monitor

1. To create a metric monitor, navigate to Monitors > New Monitor and click Metric.

2. Select a detection method to customize your monitor’s alerting conditions. For this example, you can create a threshold alert metric monitor.

   Threshold Alert

   An alert is triggered whenever a metric crosses a threshold.

   Change Alert

   An alert is triggered when the delta between values is higher than the threshold.

   Anomaly Detection

   An alert is triggered whenever a metric deviates from an expected pattern.

   Outliers Alert

   An alert is triggered whenever one member in a group behaves differently from its peers.

   Forecast Alert

   An alert is triggered whenever a metric is forecast to cross a threshold in the future.

3. In the Define the metric section, enter a Synthetic Monitoring metric such as synthetics.test_runs, where you can filter on status, response codes, and retry behavior.

4. Set the alerting conditions and add a notification message.

5. Set editing permissions and click Create.

Further Reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Learn about metrics monitorsDOCUMENTATION Learn how to manage monitorsDOCUMENTATION Learn about Synthetic Monitoring metricsDOCUMENTATION