Introducing Datadog Synthetic Monitoring

Datadog has introduced Synthetic Monitoring, a new feature that enhances visibility on the platform by monitoring applications, API endpoints, and key business flows through simulated user requests. This helps ensure uptime, identify regional issues, track application performance, and manage SLAs and SLOs. Synthetic tests provide end-to-end visibility for validating critical business transactions and can be run from Datadog-managed locations globally or custom locations that matter to the business. The integration with other Datadog features allows users to monitor results of Synthetic tests alongside application performance metrics and infrastructure metrics, minimizing alert fatigue and providing a comprehensive view of user-facing performance in one place.