13. Synthetic Monitoring
• Keynote
• Gomez
• WebPageTest Local
Real User Monitoring
• Akamai RUM
• AppDynamics EUM
14. • Is my site up?
• How fast is my site?
• Are transactions working?
• If there is a slow down or failure where is it in the infrastructure?
• Are my third party components operating correctly?
• How is my overall performance?
15.
16. • What are users actually doing on the site-traffic flow?
• What is the performance of the pages, and which components
are slowest?
• Are SLA’s met ?
• Did my latest release affect the user experience?
• How does the user experience tie back to other areas of the
company such as support?
17. Features Synthetic
Monitori
ng
Real User
Monitorin
g
Test a new feature before deploying to
prod
Ensure application is up and running 24/7
Test the performance on a new
market/geography
Monitor web third party APIs
Determine the impact of slowness or failure
on real users
Resolve support issues
Monitor Transactional Performance
API performance
Monitor all traffic /real users
26. • Books
• High Performance Web Sites – Steve Souders –
O’Reilly
• Even Faster Web Sites – Steve Souders – O’Reilly
• Web
• HTTP Archive (http://httparchive.org/)
• Web Page Test (http://www.webpagetest.org/)