Automated Synthetic Monitoring Software for Applications, APIs, and Websites
Dotcom-Monitor’s Synthetic monitoring software simulates real user behavior 24/7 to detect broken user journeys and "silent" failures before they impact your customers. Monitor websites, APIs, and complex web applications across 30+ global locations with real-browser testing, detailed video playbacks, waterfall chart reports, and proactive performance alerts.
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reduction in MTTR
“We caught a payment API regression within 90 seconds of deployment. Before Dotcom-Monitor, that would have been a P1 ticket from a customer three hours later.”
Michael Reeves
Sr. SRE, Enterprise SaaS Platform
$140K
in prevented downtime losses
“Synthetic monitoring on our checkout flow alone paid for the platform in the first month. We now detect auth failures before a single user is affected.”
Sarah Kim
VP Engineering, B2B Fintech
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What Is Synthetic Monitoring
Synthetic monitoring is the continuous, automated testing of websites, APIs, and user journeys using scripted browser and API checks — detecting downtime, broken workflows, and performance regressions from multiple global locations before real users are affected.
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No agents to install. No code changes. Set up your first synthetic monitoring and get alerted before your users notice anything is wrong.
Record Real User Journeys with EveryStep
Use the EveryStep Web Recorder to create synthetic monitoring scripts by simply interacting with your site or application. Record complex workflows such as multi-page checkout, SSO login, account registration, gated dashboard access, and cart actions without manual scripting. This no-code approach makes it easier to deploy web application monitoring quickly while still protecting the revenue-generating paths that matter most.
Test in Real Browsers, Not Simplified Simulations
Basic uptime checks cannot catch front-end rendering problems, JavaScript errors, CSS issues, or slow third-party resources. Dotcom-Monitor executes synthetic tests in real Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari browsers so teams can validate performance and functionality exactly as users experience them.
This gives engineering, QA, and digital teams a more accurate view of real-world web application health.
Capture Visual Evidence for Faster Troubleshooting
When a transaction fails, the platform captures video playback of the failed test run, waterfall charts, and full-DOM snapshots. These visual diagnostics help teams accelerate root-cause analysis by showing the exact API call, page element, redirect, or script that caused the journey to break. Instead of guessing where the issue lives, teams get immediate evidence that reduces Mean Time to Identification.
Catch Silent Conversion Failures Before Revenue Is Lost
A site can appear available while critical actions such as login, checkout, search, or account access quietly fail in the background. These silent failures can drain conversion rates, waste paid traffic, and damage customer trust. Dotcom-Monitor helps teams detect these issues with synthetic checks that can run as frequently as every 60 seconds, giving digital teams a proactive way to protect customer experience and online revenue.
Deploy with Confidence from Staging to Production
Synthetic monitoring is not only for production alerting. Teams can point monitors at staging environments or integrate them into CI/CD workflows to run smoke tests on critical paths before and after release. This helps prevent Day 1 bugs, protects golden user journeys, and gives teams more confidence to deploy quickly without breaking existing functionality.
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Synthetic Monitoring Software for APIs and Microservices
Validate API Availability, Accuracy, and Latency
Detect Timeouts, Bad Payloads, and Authentication Failures Earlier
API and microservice issues often surface first as degraded functionality, slow transactions, or intermittent errors. Synthetic API checks help teams catch timeouts, failed authentication, bad responses, and service interruptions before they cascade into visible customer problems.
This is especially valuable in distributed architectures where multiple backend services influence a single user journey.
Support Authentication and Service-Level Validation
Backend reliability is not just about uptime. Teams also need to validate authentication behavior, token exchanges, and business-critical service responses. Dotcom-Monitor helps verify these conditions proactively so failures can be addressed before they affect dependent applications or customer workflows.
Speed Up Root-Cause Analysis for Service Incidents
When a failure is detected, teams can review the diagnostic details needed to identify the failing service faster. This gives DevOps, SRE, and platform teams a stronger starting point for remediation and helps reduce the time spent searching for the source of a backend incident.
Validate Your APIs Before Users Feel the Failure
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- REST, SOAP, multi-step, and alerting included
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Synthetic Web Monitoring for Websites and Public Digital Experience
Monitor Website Availability from 30+ Global Locations
Dotcom-Monitor provides synthetic monitoring from more than 30 global checkpoints, helping teams understand how websites perform across major customer regions. This makes it easier to identify regional latency, localized outages, and blind spots that would be missed by single-location monitoring.
Go Beyond Uptime with Performance Visibility
Website synthetic monitoring should not stop at determining whether a page responds. Dotcom-Monitor helps teams analyze performance bottlenecks with waterfall chart reports and browser-based diagnostics that reveal slow scripts, heavy assets, and other issues that degrade page speed and user experience.
Improve Core Web Vitals and Search Visibility
Search performance and digital experience are closely connected. Dotcom-Monitor helps teams monitor conditions that influence metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint and Cumulative Layout Shift in controlled environments. By identifying slow-loading third-party resources and CDN performance early, teams can improve site stability, protect SEO performance, and deliver faster experiences.
Turn Reliability Data into Useful Reporting
For enterprise organizations and service providers, reliability often needs to be documented, not just observed. Dotcom-Monitor supports automated dashboards and SLA-oriented reporting that help teams demonstrate uptime and performance commitments with data collected from a global monitoring network.
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Synthetic Monitoring for Authentication, Internal Apps, and Advanced Enterprises
Monitor SSO and MFA Authentication Flows
Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication workflows often rely on chained redirects, identity providers, token exchanges, and gated sessions that can fail in hard-to-diagnose ways. Dotcom-Monitor can simulate these multi-step authentication journeys so teams can identify broken handshakes, redirect issues, and access failures before users are locked out of critical systems.
Deploy Private Agents Behind the Firewall
Many enterprise applications, including internal employee portals, proprietary tools, intranets, and ERP systems, sit behind corporate firewalls. Dotcom-Monitor supports private synthetic agents, also called Private Nodes, that can be deployed within your own environment to monitor internal applications from a secure internal vantage point.
Isolate Third-Party Script Impact and DOM Instability
Modern digital experiences depend on analytics tags, chat widgets, external scripts, and other third-party elements that can block rendering and introduce layout instability. Real browser synthetic monitoring helps teams isolate which external resource is slowing the experience or affecting page stability so they can optimize loading strategy and reduce user friction.
Reproduce Intermittent Failures During High-Traffic Events
Intermittent Ecommerce and SaaS application issues can be difficult to capture during peak traffic windows. Synthetic monitoring helps reproduce user-facing failures by repeatedly executing the full transaction logic, making it easier to capture evidence of API slowdowns, frontend errors, or backend performance issues that only appear under pressure.
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Why Teams Choose Dotcom-Monitor for Synthetic Monitoring
Reduce Mean Time to Identification
Outages become more expensive the longer teams spend finding the problem. With visual diagnostics, synchronized playback, waterfall data, and contextual alerts, Dotcom-Monitor gives teams a fast-starting point for troubleshooting.
No-Code Synthetic Transaction Monitoring
Teams can record complex workflows without writing scripts manually, making it easier to launch monitoring quickly and keep coverage aligned with how a real user browses through your website.
Get Proactive Alerts in the Tools Your Team Already Uses
Dotcom-Monitor integrates proactive alerts into existing workflows through Slack, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, and ServiceNow, helping teams respond faster when performance or availability problems are detected.
Correlate Front-End Experience with Infrastructure Signals
Dotcom-Monitor supports visibility across websites, applications, APIs, and infrastructure-level checks such as DNS, FTP, and TCP. This helps teams connect backend health and network behavior to the actual digital experience users receive.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can I deploy Private Agents behind my company's firewall?
Yes, Dotcom-Monitor allows you to deploy Private Agents (also known as Private Nodes) specifically to monitor applications from behind your corporate firewall. This capability is essential for tracking the performance and availability of internal employee portals, intranets, or HR tools that are not accessible via the public internet.
What is a private synthetic agent?
A private synthetic agent is a lightweight software instance installed on your own local server or private cloud that acts as a secure internal vantage point. Unlike public monitoring nodes that live in global data centers, a private agent mimics the experience of an actual employee or internal system from within your own network infrastructure.
What is the difference between APM and synthetic monitoring?
The primary difference lies in the direction of the observation: Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is an “inside-out” strategy that uses agents installed on servers to track internal code execution, database queries, and hardware resource usage to identify backend bottlenecks. In contrast, Synthetic Monitoring is an “outside-in” approach that uses scripts to simulate end-user behavior – such as logging in or checking out – to proactively detect front-end failures and slow load times before real users encounter them.
What are the different types of synthetic monitors that exist?
Synthetic monitors are categorized by the technical depth of the check: Web Uptime monitors handle basic protocol checks like DNS, FTP, and SSL certificate expiration. Web API monitors validate the functionality of REST, SOAP, and WebSocket responses. Web Application (UserView) monitors utilize a full browser engine to simulate multi-step transactions. Finally, Media Streaming monitors verify the availability and quality of audio and video playback.
How many locations should I monitor from?
For enterprise-grade reliability, you should monitor from 3 to 5 locations covering every major geographic region where your customers reside. This multi-node approach is critical because it enables “Double-Check” logic, where a failure reported by one node is immediately verified by others.
What Our Customers Say
"I absolutely love the comprehensive monitoring services Dotcom-Monitor provides. The real-time alerts and detailed performance analytics have been a game-changer for our website's uptime and speed. The global monitoring feature ensures that our site is optimized everywhere, and the intuitive dashboard makes it easy to track performance. Their customer support is exceptional — always responsive and efficient."
Tomer C.
Managing Director · Facilities Services
Verified Capterra review · March 2025
"One of Dotcom's best features is the push/pull API capabilities that provide us with network performance data. We use this to monitor for performance issues as well as page loading stats. Dotcom-Monitor allows us to monitor multiple services within one interface and platform. It's allowed us to operate more efficiently."
Gregory S.
Manager · Broadcast Media
Verified Capterra review · May 2020
"I have been thoroughly impressed with the level of detail and comprehensiveness of the reports generated by the software. Moreover, the support team at Dotcom-Monitor has exceeded my expectations. On almost a daily basis, I reach out with various questions and they have consistently demonstrated unwavering patience, providing detailed and insightful answers."
Shirin R.
Software Test Engineer · Computer Software
Verified Capterra review · February 2023
"I'm a network analyst and use Dotcom tools inside the ISP I work, it's a really good and reliable tool for monitoring things along the network, and testing network components, I usually use it to make diagnostics of servers latency, and dns resolve time."
Leonardo J.
IT & Network Infrastructure Analyst Internet
Verified Capterra review · October 2022
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