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What is Synthetic Monitoring and What Are the Benefits? | Obkio

Many traditional network monitoring solutions use a packet capture method to capture real-user data and monitor network performance. Now, modern network monitoring tools have switched to synthetic monitoring to monitor network performance without collecting user information. What is Synthetic Monitoring? It is a monitoring technique used to monitor application and network performance by simulating user activity.

Dynamically Created Runtime Fields

The video contains a demonstration of the creation of an index template that defines that unknown fields will be created as runtime fields. Documents are then indexed into an index that inherits from that template, and because these documents contain fields that are not defined in the template, the fields are automatically created as runtime fields (i.e. these fields are usable for search and aggregation, but are not indexed). Runtime field is the name given to the implementation of schema on read in Elasticsearch.