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7.7Metrics to Track from Synthetic Monitoring

Metric Purpose Alert Threshold
Pass/fail rate per journey Overall health Any failure
Availability (% of passing runs) SLO compliance < 99.5% over 7 days
Response time per step Performance tracking > 2x baseline
Regional availability Geographic health Any region < 99%
Screenshot diff score Visual regression > 10% pixel difference

Synthetic monitoring is the night watch of your production environment. When your team is asleep, synthetic tests are verifying that critical user journeys still work.