Synthetic monitoring is a useful tool that ensures your site is both UP and performs well, and configuration matters. Optimized synthetic monitoring looks for necessary elements along a focused goal pathway. A poorly configured check can add precious seconds to a Transaction and trigger unwanted Global Timeout errors. Today, we’re going to do a deep dive on tips and tricks used by Uptime.com Support and Development teams to improve and optimize the Transaction checks we use everyday.

It’s already been a stormy quarter with notable outages exceeding 240 hours. This spring saw two substantial cloud provider outages between Atlassian’s 9 day outage and shorter outages with CloudFlare. As reliance on cloud-based tools and services increases you should be asking, what are the best ways to monitor your site and make sure the data you’re reporting accurately reflects your site’s downtime and SLAs?

The Uptime.com monitoring Transaction check just got a few upgrades bringing more granular control to users with complex checks. If you have found yourself struggling with performance in synthetic monitoring, this upgrade is for you. Plus better diagnostic tools to analyze every request we encountered. Available to every Uptime.com user, today we want to introduce these important tools and walk though some use cases that will help you get the most out of them.

We are halfway through 2022 and one thing is certain – downtime is here to stay. In fact, trends are showing the frequency of downtime is increasing, along with the severity and wide-spread impact. Consumers and businesses are more interconnected and reliant on technology and software than ever, from remote business communication to simply listening to your favorite podcast on your way to work.

Have you struggled to quantify the uptime performance of a complex system? With many interrelated parts, it can be easy to tell which pieces are down, but a tougher challenge to view them in the context of those systems. When you’re responding to a major outage, the data on your system’s uptime is just as critical as its components.

As your team grows, so do the rules and regulations you use to keep things organized. The same is true for systems, which grow in complexity as they grow in size. That complexity is difficult to manage on its own without the natural turnover that occurs in tech. Those who built and managed legacy systems, eventually go on to bigger and brighter things, either within the company or toward other opportunities.

Reporting on systems is a necessity – whether you are responsible for reporting to internal and external stakeholders, or want to make status reporting accessible for your end users. Integrated tools make reporting a practical extension of your monitoring to save you time without compromising key metrics.