Are You Installing New Updates on Your E-commerce Website and Want to Ensure It Is Running Correctly? Synthetic Monitoring Can Assist
Learn how to get synthetics monitoring to work in new relic by reviewing its four types – Ping, Simple Browser, Scripted Browser and API Test Monitor – then set alert policies so you receive timely notifications via any channels you select.
Monitor Types
Speed is key to both user satisfaction and revenue generation online, but optimizing web performance requires taking an holistic approach beyond monitoring alone. Leveraging synthetic monitoring data over the long term requires creating several test scenarios, incorporating them into an overall web performance strategy, then periodically reviewing and revising monitors/alerts accordingly in order to optimize your site.
New Relic offers various monitor types, such as Ping, Simple Browser, Scripted Browser and API Test. Choose the monitor type that best meets your needs before setting up its settings – these may include monitoring URLs/endpoints of interest, frequency of checks from various locations as well as advanced options like scripting text verification or validation validations.
To set up alert notifications, choose from various notification channels such as email, SMS, HipChat, Slack, PagerDuty VictorOps Campfire xMatters etc. You can also create notifier groups to expedite delivery of notifications across teams faster.
Alert Policies
Synthetic monitoring uses various approaches to detect problems quickly and accurately. Alert policies can be utilized to minimize noise and focus on only those issues with criticality.
Configure your monitor’s alert conditions, including response time and error rate thresholds, error messages or custom text for more specific messages. Set delays to protect against inconsistent data: for instance if New Relic receives multiple data points within one minute with differing timestamps but has already opened an incident, setting delays gives New Relic time to collect more accurate timestamps before opening an incident report.
Workflow policies allow you to control how incidents are filtered, routed and converted into notifications. Destinations allow you to select how and where your notifications arrive – such as Slack, PagerDuty or your incident management system. New Relic offers many such destinations; more are being added all of the time. Alert conditions can also be tagged for easy identification so you know which services, environments and teams are responsible.
Custom Attributes
Attributes are key-value data pairs that define properties associated with an event or transaction, adding context and providing metrics for use in queries or NRQL condition alerts.
The Go agent records custom attributes as metadata attached to span and transaction trace events, which can then be retrieved using New Relic’s user interface (UI) and distributed tracing capabilities. For instance, customer names could be captured as attributes attached to Transaction events for later retrieval via New Relic’s UI.
For each attribute that needs recording, use newrelic_add_attribute(). This function adds custom attributes (key/value pairs) to a transaction or span event and can be queried using the NRQL language. With its flexible settings you can also opt to include or exclude certain custom attributes with this call (for instance only those recorded using newrelic_add_attribute) when creating events like transactions.
Configuration
To ensure the necessary data is gathered and alerts sent correctly, there are multiple configuration options which can be adjusted. These include monitor types, alert conditions and custom attributes.
Correctly configuring these settings can greatly enhance website performance and prevent critical transactions from being affected by issues with the website or application. Our New Relic Support team offers expert assistance that can assist in solving or preventing issues from occurring, so don’t hesitate to get in touch if needed!Other resources, like online documentation and tutorials about how to get synthetics monitoring to work in new relic, can also assist users in becoming adept with New Relic’s Synthetic Monitoring insights for prolonged site improvement can lead to enhanced user experiences and greater engagement levels. New Relic offers webinars that can assist users in understanding this tool better. Eventually, exploiting Synthetic Monitoring insights for site enhancement can result in enhanced user experiences and higher engagement levels as long as an effective monitoring system is put in place; this involves setting frequency checks as well as types of checks performed regularly.
