Feature Overview

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring is a proactive monitoring solution that enables you to create code-free API, browser, and mobile tests to automatically simulate user flows and requests to your applications, key endpoints, and network layers. Quickly detect user-facing issues and jump-start system-wide investigations so you can optimize performance and achieve reliable user experiences.

Proactively monitor end-to-end user flows with browser tests

Easily create tests with customized assertions using our fully hosted codeless web recorder
Reduce false alarms and alert fatigue with automatic detection of UI changes and updating of tests
Visualize user flows with step-by-step screenshots and Session Replay, and add key context with relevant network and performance metrics

Capture critical transactions with Datadog’s code-free, fully hosted web recorder.

Track endpoint health and performance with API tests

Validate all layers of your systems (HTTP, gRPC, SSL, DNS, WebSocket, TCP, UDP, and ICMP) from global managed and private locations
View a breakdown of network timing data for faster root cause analysis
Verify key user flows at the API level by chaining API requests together in multistep tests

View a Datadog API test result and view detailed metrics to understand global performance.

One suite for all testing needs

Incorporate end-to-end tests into your CI pipelines for early issue detection, prevention, and remediation for web and mobile applications
Use our integrations with popular CI providers (GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure DevOps) and collaboration tools (Slack, Jira) to merge workflows and avoid context-switching
Streamline collaboration by eliminating the need for teams to maintain separate testing scenarios, helping improve efficiency, release velocity, and business agility

Increase efficiency through seamless integrations

Reduce mean time to resolution with full-stack visibility

Gain the full context for troubleshooting failed tests—without switching between tools—through correlated metrics, traces, logs, and session replays surfaced by Datadog APM and RUM integration
Visualize application uptime and performance data alongside key business metrics, helping you track your SLAs and SLOs
Gain deep visibility into your internet stack—including CDNs, SaaS APIs, cloud providers, and networks—to pinpoint issues and eliminate unnecessary troubleshooting cycles