Application Real-Time Monitoring Service:What is Synthetic Monitoring?

Core strengths

• Multi-protocol support: Supports Ping, TCP, Traceroute, HTTP(S), browser-based web page performance, and file transfer monitoring for comprehensive coverage of your online service's availability and performance.

• Global monitoring points: Monitoring points distributed worldwide provide real-time insights into network performance, helping ensure service availability across regions.

• Fault localization and diagnosis: Uses advanced Traceroute diagnostic technology to detect and locate network faults quickly, with detailed fault reports and resolution suggestions.

• Real-time alerting and notifications: Sends alert notifications automatically when a service anomaly occurs, enabling fast response and resolution.

• Data visualization: Intuitive dashboards and reports help you understand network conditions, performance trends, and fault analysis at a glance.

Scenarios

• Network performance monitoring: Monitor network conditions in real time to ensure service stability and availability.

• Service availability validation: Simulate real user requests to validate service availability and response times, helping ensure a good user experience.

• Fault troubleshooting and localization: Detect and locate network issues quickly with detailed fault reports and resolution suggestions.

• Network optimization and adjustment: Use network performance data to optimize your network architecture and adjust service deployments for improved performance and user experience.

• Service quality reports: Generate periodic or on-demand service quality reports to understand network status and support decision-making.

• Online service monitoring: Gain a comprehensive view of your online service's network status, performance, and user experience. Synthetic Monitoring provides proactive monitoring for businesses of all sizes, from small enterprises to large multinational corporations.

Terms

Term	Glossary
IDC monitoring point	An IDC (Internet Data Center) monitoring point is a monitoring node deployed in an Internet data center. These points are located in high-speed, high-availability data center networks and help you test the performance and stability of network links. Use IDC monitoring points to assess connectivity between the Internet backbone, ISP networks, and data center networks. They are suitable for monitoring enterprise-to-data-center links and scenarios with high network performance requirements.
Last-mile monitoring point	A last-mile (end user) monitoring point is a monitoring node deployed close to end users. These points simulate the actual network experience of users accessing a service from different locations, network environments, and ISPs. They are suitable for monitoring end-user network quality and help you optimize network services and improve user satisfaction.
Mobile monitoring point	A mobile monitoring point is deployed in a mobile network environment to test and monitor the network experience of mobile Internet users. It simulates how mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets perform under various mobile network conditions. Currently, Synthetic Monitoring only supports 3G and 4G. These points help you understand access conditions for mobile users across different locations and carrier networks, identify performance issues, and optimize your network architecture to improve mobile user satisfaction.
Cloud host monitoring point	A cloud host monitoring point is a monitoring node deployed on the Alibaba Cloud platform to test and monitor the performance and availability of cloud-based services.

Use Synthetic Monitoring

ARMS Synthetic Monitoring supports creating and managing scheduled network probe tasks through the console and the API.

After you create a scheduled task, you can create alerts for anomaly detection on relevant metrics. For more information, see Synthetic Monitoring alert rules.

References

• ARMS Synthetic Monitoring is billed based on the number of network probes. For more information, see Billing.

• Synthetic Monitoring supports cloud host, PC, and mobile monitoring point types and covers multiple carriers worldwide. For more information, see Monitoring points.