Synthetic Monitoring proactively tests APIs, browsers, and mobile flows to detect user-facing issues before they impact customers.
Datadog Synthetic Monitoring is a proactive monitoring solution that lets teams create code-free API, browser, and mobile tests to automatically simulate user flows and requests to applications, key endpoints, and network layers. It quickly detects user-facing issues and jump-starts system-wide investigations to optimize performance and achieve reliable user experiences.
By simulating traffic from managed locations around the world, Synthetic Monitoring catches regressions in availability and performance before real users are affected. Test results correlate with metrics, traces, and logs, helping teams localize failures to specific services, regions, or third-party dependencies.
Log Management
Cloud Security Posture Management
Real User Monitoring
Application Performance Monitoring
Infrastructure Monitoring
Network Monitoring
Datadog Dynamic Instrumentation
Datadog Workload Protection
App and API Protection
Watchdog
Incident Response
CI/CD Pipeline Visibility
Database Monitoring
Cloud Cost Management
Grafana Labs
Grafana Cloud
grafana.com
Hyperping
Synthetic monitoring
hyperping.com
Checkly
Synthetic Monitoring
checklyhq.com
| Attribute | Synthetic Monitoring | Grafana Cloud | Synthetic monitoring | Synthetic Monitoring | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider | | | | | |
| Founded | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | 2018 | |
| Sells To | Enterprise, Small Business | Small Business | B2B | DevOps and Engineering Teams | |
| Pricing Model | Recurring | Recurring, Software | B2B SaaS | — | |
| Ownership | Public | Venture-backed | Private | — |
Provider
Founded 2010
Sells To Enterprise, Small Business
Pricing Model Recurring
Ownership Public
Provider
Founded 2014
Sells To Small Business
Pricing Model Recurring, Software
Ownership Venture-backed
Provider
Founded 2018
Sells To B2B
Pricing Model B2B SaaS
Ownership Private
Provider
Founded 2018
Sells To DevOps and Engineering Teams
Pricing Model —
Ownership —
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