An overview of synthetic monitoring and automated testing in New Relic. Leverage automated testing to find out where specific errors and slow pages are so that you can deliver the best customer experience.

In this 90-minute workshop and lab session, you’ll explore how to leverage synthetic monitoring to track, optimize and alert on the parts of your systems or websites that matter most to you or your business.

You’ll also learn how to:

• Set up monitors for specific use cases.
• Report on specific SLAs and SLOs and create dashboards to chart their performance.
• Use New Relic query language (NRQL) alerts to notify you of potential issues.

The lab sessions will cover:

• Monitor types: Ping, simple browser, scripted browser, API test.
• Monitor alerts: Synthetic alerts and NRQL alerts.
• Secure credentials and private locations.
• SLA’s and reporting.
• Aggregate and individual monitors.
• Dashboards to chart monitor performance.
• Field testing vs RUM comparative charting.