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View Results from All Synthetic Monitors in New Relic One
In order to improve uptime and maintain high levels of service reliability, teams need the ability to detect incidents faster, isolate the causes, and remedy the problems quickly. To better equip reliability teams, we’re excited to announce that results from all synthetic monitor types are now available in New Relic One.
Synthetics Is Now in New Relic One
The promise of any synthetic monitoring tool is the ability to proactively alert you about an outage and give you context into why that problem occurred so you can fix it before users are impacted. Of course, we would never allow our customers to use just any synthetic monitoring tool.
Best Practices and Usage Tips for New Users
This post is adapted from a series of best practice guides that reflect the New Relic Community Team’s work with thousands of customers—identifying challenges and coming up with actionable solutions for organizations getting started with New Relic Synthetics. Also, check out our guides to getting started with New Relic APM, New Relic Infrastructure, New Relic Mobile, New Relic Insights, and New Relic Browser; and discover the New Relic Community Team’s latest Best Practice Guide offerings.
New Capabilities for New Relic Synthetics
Controlling when your synthetic monitors run is essential to managing your team’s service level agreements (SLAs) and, more broadly, to applying consistent and reliable proactive monitoring. During maintenance and scheduled site downtime windows, for example, you don’t want your synthetic monitors to fail and subsequently skew your uptime results. You need precise control over your synthetic monitors to dictate when you’d like them to run.
Tips For Creating Resilient Selenium Scripts With CSS Selectors
Selenium is a suite of services and tools you can use to run scripted automation tests in web browsers to verify the functionality of your web applications. Writing Selenium scripts can be challenging, but they get especially complicated if your script needs to find and select page elements that have been altered by backend changes or by dynamic changes via a JavaScript or CSS library.
Beginner’s Guide to Writing Scripted Browsers for New Relic Synthetics
Occasionally I hear from New Relic Synthetics users who say they don’t have the “technical background,” or are just too intimidated, to write scripted browsers to test their websites. While I understand their concerns, I am here to assure everyone that writing these scripts can be a lot easier—and more enjoyable!—than you’d expect. With that in mind, let’s walk through the process of writing a simple yet effective script that monitors the process for creating a new user account on Amazon.com.
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