Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring

Proactively monitor the availability, performance, and security of your infrastructure and internet-facing services from configurable probe locations, before your users notice a problem.

Synthetic Monitoring in Cloudmon uses active probing to continuously test your services at regular intervals, giving you an objective outside-in view of availability and performance. Unlike passive monitoring that waits for a device to report an issue, Synthetic Monitoring sends real test traffic and measures the result so you know exactly how your services look to the outside world.

Probe-based testing: All synthetic checks are performed from a Cloudmon probe. Choose a probe in the same network segment as the target for internal checks, or a probe with internet access for external-facing services. The probe must be online for checks to run.

What Synthetic Monitoring gives you

Continuous availability checks
Test hosts, ports, websites, and FTP endpoints at every polling interval and get alerted the moment availability drops.
Performance measurement
Track latency, jitter, packet loss, and response time to catch degradation before it becomes an outage.
Certificate security
Track SSL/TLS certificate expiry, trust chain integrity, cipher strength, and known vulnerabilities across all internet-facing services.
Connection breakdown
For websites, see the full connection lifecycle: DNS lookup, SSL handshake, time to first byte, and download time, so you know exactly where slowdowns occur.
Trace path analysis
Map the full hop-by-hop network path to any monitored host or service to identify bottlenecks at specific network hops.
Smart alerts
Set thresholds per monitor and notify via email, Teams, Slack, or webhook the moment a check fails or a metric breaches its limit.

Synthetic Monitoring Articles

Host Availability
Test host reachability using ICMP or TCP. Track availability, latency, jitter, packet loss, and trace path.
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Port Availability
Verify TCP services and ports are open and responsive, from standard services to custom application endpoints.
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SSL/TLS Certificates
Track certificate expiry, trust chain, revocation status, cipher strength, and vulnerability checks.
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Websites Monitoring
Monitor URL availability, HTTP status codes, response time, and full connection breakdown from DNS through to download.
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FTP Transfer Monitoring
Verify FTP servers are reachable and accepting connections. Monitor availability and response time for file transfer endpoints.
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REST API Monitoring
Monitor REST API endpoints for availability, response time, and correct content. Validate status codes and response body across any HTTP or HTTPS endpoint.
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ISP Path
Trace the full network path from a probe to a target host and isolate latency or packet loss at the ISP segment.
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Start monitoring your services proactively
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