What is Synthetic Monitoring and how it maximises your App Performance?
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Published: 2023-03-17 09:49:05

## What is Synthetic Monitoring and how it maximises your App Performance?

Businesses are becoming increasingly digital-focused in today’s market environment. The online ecosystem is the new normal for providing services, selling products and more importantly, successful online transactions. For a smoother flow of such transactions, synthetic monitoring (STM) is essential to ensure the application’s performance and generate value outside of your digital assets.

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What is Synthetic Monitoring?
Synthetic monitoring is a method for analysing the performance of business applications by simulating a path across the application functionalities. It is enabled by defining a route that has several checkpoints. When an end-user goes through
the route, each checkpoint indicates the performance metrics to ensure the functionalities are working.

As a result, you have all the KPIs to make alterations to the application code. The paths are consistently monitored for regular improvements to enhance uptime. End-user synthetic monitoring has now become a common practice for business
applications with transactional traffic. Thus, it is one of the most crucial IT components for banking and financial apps.

It is also known as directed monitoring as well as active monitoring.

Here are some stats related to application performance and synthetic monitoring.

● 45% of respondents indicated IT service recovery in 2019 took
greater than 12 hours. – Uptime Institute Report
● Globally, $126,000 per hour is the average revenue lost due to
downtime. – Digital Enterprise Journal
● The Synthetic Monitoring market was $838.5 million in 2020. It is growing at a CAGR of 15.2% from 2021 to 2026. By 2026, it can reach $1944.705 million. – Mordor Intelligence

Online businesses worldwide are considering synthetic monitoring as a significant impetus to advance their applications and solve IT issues to maintain a robust
uptime. In particular, banking and finance companies are taking a keen interest in investing more in monitoring services to make the most out of their digital assets.

How does STM maximise application performance?

Synthetic monitoring proactively watches over your APIs, websites, web, mobile and SaaS applications, even during low-traffic periods, and alerts your operations team in
case of performance degradation or availability issues.

STM also plays a key role in understanding the performance limitations of your application. Your customers have realistic expectations and automated monitoring techniques fail to deliver real-time resolution. Synthetic monitoring by an end-user may be complex but it surely maximises your application performance by providing real-time data so that you deliver active responses to solve technical issues.

Managing Compliance and Third-Party Integrations
Despite your digital infrastructure, your business app requires third-party integration to serve transaction requests from multiple sources. This is where synthetic monitoring ensures the reliability and compatibility of the third party. For your application to perform smoothly, you need consistent observation of third-party apps, follow the compliance and get real-time alerts.

Preventing Transaction Failure
Synthetic monitoring helps to prevent an unsuccessful transaction like no other technique. Analysing the previous errors along with accurate incident data in hand,
resolving any transactional error is quicker when you have a monitoring partner specialising in STM and end-user analytics. It also includes constant API monitoring with a real user perspective, instant reporting of technical issues, and rechecking the applied measures to prevent transaction failure.

Also, check our article on [eCommerce apps with live monitoring that will help you attain a smoother customer experience](https://www.uniskytechnologies.com/Rethink-your-eCommerce-app-with-Live-Monitoring.html)
analysis to stay one step ahead.
With a significant rise in investments for monitoring globally, businesses are keen to
explore new opportunities by understanding application capabilities and error
patterns. Your synthetic monitoring strategy should be a blend of rich data analytics
and real-time responses to streamline seamless transactions.
Unisky Technologies focuses on Synthetic Monitoring, API Monitoring, Web
Performance Monitoring,
App Performance Monitoring, Cloud Monitoring, Network Monitoring, Real
User Monitoring,
Remote Monitoring and Automated Testing.
Visit www.uniskytechnologies.com to know more.
Also, check our article on eCommerce apps with live monitoring that will help
you attain a smoother customer experience.