What is monitored through synthetic checks in Dynatrace?

Synthetic checks in Dynatrace are specifically designed to simulate user interactions and workflows, allowing for a comprehensive assessment of how applications perform from the user's perspective. This method is particularly valuable for monitoring complex user interactions, as it helps identify potential issues that real users might experience when navigating through an application.

These checks perform predefined actions to mimic a user's behavior, such as logging in, searching for a product, or completing a transaction. By doing so, Dynatrace can gauge not only the performance of individual interactions but also the overall flow of processes within the application. This approach helps teams to proactively identify performance bottlenecks or failures before they impact actual users, providing essential insights and enabling timely remediation steps.

While API response times, user experience on mobile devices, and back-end server health are important aspects of application performance, synthetic checks primarily focus on simulating end-user behavior and ensuring that complex workflows operate smoothly as intended.