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Real-Time API Monitoring and Testing
Deliver fast and reliable digital experiences for your end users
with API checks from Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
From microservices to the spread of single-page web
apps and the continued dominance of native mobile
apps, APIs are the engines that businesses rely on to
power their applications and outpace their competition.
Whether they are internally created or third-party APls,
it is imperative that modern companies ensure the
APls they depend on are available, functional and fast.
By continuously monitoring all first- and third-party
APls to verify the availability, response time and
data quality for these transactions, Splunk Synthetic
Monitoring provides businesses with peace of mind.
Gain insight into UX, even across
fragmented systems
Your users likely don’t know the difference between
managed and third-party APls. Why should your
monitoring solution only give you insight into one? With
Take charge of the APIs that drive your digital experience with
Splunk Synthetic Monitoring you can continuously Splunk Synthetic Monitoring’s easy-to-use API checks.
monitor steps into all APls to quickly identify failures
before they impact your user.
Test critical user flows across multiple managed From basic to enterprise-grade, Splunk
or third-party APls has your back
Some API monitoring solutions just test endpoints. Our customers use API checks to test everything
Splunk Synthetic Monitoring, on the other hand, lets from simple web services to complex streaming video
you guarantee the performance and functionality of an services. No matter your API or your industry, Splunk
entire transaction or business flow by requesting data has you covered.
from one API, modifying its format and passing that
new data on to another API.
Global, Reusable Variables JSON or XML JavaScript-Powered Validate UX and Functionality
Define API tokens Splunk Synthetic Monitoring Modify data or perform Make assertions about both
once, reuse everywhere supports sending, parsing and complex validation using the speed and correctness
extracting all payload formats your own JavaScript code of API responses
for maximum flexibility
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Easily pinpoint failures even when your
APls are complex
Set alerting thresholds that reflect your performance
goals. Easily identify the root cause of failure in
service-oriented environments so you can spend your
time fixing hang-ups rather than hunting for them.
Validate your API payloads
Ensuring that your API is responsive is only part of
the challenge. You also want to guarantee that they
are returning the correct data. With Splunk Synthetic
Monitoring you can verify that your APls are both fast
and functioning properly.
Alerting that works the way you do
Splunk Synthetic Monitoring helps catalyze
collaboration and shared understanding. With
webhooks to popular tools such as Slack, HipChat,
PagerDuty and OpsGenie, Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
integrates alerts into existing workflows.
“Splunk’s Synthetic Monitoring Performance
KPIs help us create a culture of performance
because they provide insight into incremental
changes. When we roll out performance
improvements we use Performance KPIs and
graphs to show engineers how their small
changes impact end-user experience.”
Scott Jungling
Front-end Engineering Manager at Build.com
Find out how Splunk Synthetic Monitoring can help you take charge of your APIs. Schedule a demo today.
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