Synthetic Tests¶
Synthetic Tests is a comprehensive online service monitoring solution provided by Guance. It creates code-free APIs that leverage globally distributed monitoring points to simulate real user access experiences across different regions and network environments. This monitoring covers critical business scenarios such as network quality, website performance, and key endpoints, while also providing periodic monitoring of multi-dimensional performance metrics related to 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 performance. Guance supports multi-dimensional real-time data analysis, helping users comprehensively understand service availability. Additionally, by setting up alert mechanisms, you can perform anomaly detection on key performance indicators, ensuring timely responses to issues and maintaining business stability and continuity.
Getting Started¶
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Create testing tasks based on mainstream protocols such as HTTP(S), TCP, ICMP, WebSocket, etc., 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 regions and network environments (e.g., different ISPs) to simulate the access paths and experiences of real end-users worldwide. This enables precise assessment of global business availability and performance, helping to identify 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 access full-link 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 analysis from macro availability to micro performance bottlenecks
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In addition to using Guance's preset global nodes, you can build dedicated private probe nodes in specific geographical locations, cloud service providers, or private network environments (such as corporate intranets or hybrid cloud architectures) based on business needs. This achieves fully customized monitoring coverage, ensuring monitoring capabilities for internal services, special network paths, and data sovereignty requirements
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All testing data is automatically integrated into Guance's unified data analysis platform, allowing you to monitor and alert on the massive performance data generated by availability testing tasks. You can set up detailed rules to trigger alerts at different severity levels when data volume or data metrics (such as average response time, number of error requests) reach preset threshold ranges within specified time periods