Synthetic Tests¶
Synthetic Tests is a comprehensive online service monitoring solution provided by Guance. It creates code-free APIs, utilizing globally distributed monitoring points to simulate the access experience of real users across different regions and network environments. This monitoring covers key business scenarios such as network quality, website performance, and critical endpoints, while also providing periodic monitoring of multi-dimensional performance metrics like user experience.
Through the visual data analysis platform provided by Guance, you can view and analyze monitoring data in real-time, gaining deep insights into your service's performance status. Guance supports multi-dimensional real-time analysis of data, helping users fully understand service availability. Additionally, by setting up alert mechanisms, you can perform anomaly detection on key performance indicators, ensuring timely responses when issues occur and maintaining business stability and continuity.
Get Started¶
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Create test tasks based on mainstream protocols like HTTP(S), TCP, ICMP, WebSocket through a visual interface without writing any code. This allows you to perform comprehensive active health checks on website APIs, server ports, network connectivity, and even real-time communication services, covering the complete chain from the network layer to the application layer.
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Leveraging Guance's globally distributed monitoring node network, this feature actively initiates requests from different geographical regions and network environments (e.g., different ISPs), simulating the access paths and experiences of real global end-users. This enables precise assessment of your business's global availability and performance, identifying regional network issues or service delays.
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Multi-dimensional Performance Deep Analysis
Each test provides in-depth performance data. Through the "Explorer", you can obtain full-chain performance breakdown metrics including DNS resolution time, SSL handshake duration, time to first byte (TTFB), and more. You can also view request error details and page loading performance, enabling layered drill-down analysis from macro availability to micro performance bottlenecks.
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In addition to using Guance's preset global nodes, you can also build dedicated private probe nodes in specific geographical locations, cloud service providers, or private network environments (e.g., corporate intranets, hybrid cloud architectures) according to your business needs. This achieves complete customization of monitoring coverage, ensuring monitoring capabilities for internal services, special network paths, and data sovereignty requirements.
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All test data is automatically integrated into Guance's unified data analysis platform, allowing you to monitor and set alerts on the massive performance data generated by availability test tasks themselves. You can set fine-grained rules to trigger alerts at different severity levels when data volume or data metrics (e.g., average response time, number of erroneous requests) reach preset threshold ranges within specified time periods.