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24×7 Synthetic Monitoring

Continuous synthetic testing that simulates real user journeys across your sites, apps and APIs, catching failures before your users ever notice.

Your applications, websites and APIs can fail in ways infrastructure metrics never show. A server reporting healthy CPU and memory can still be serving a broken login page, a failing payment step or an API returning errors. Downtime and slow responses cost revenue and erode trust, so we test your systems the way your users actually use them, continuously, around the clock.

What is 24×7 synthetic monitoring?

Synthetic monitoring uses automated scripts to simulate real user interactions (loading pages, logging in, completing checkouts, calling APIs) and verify that each step works and performs. Unlike traditional monitoring, which relies on real-user data and therefore only reports problems after users hit them, synthetic monitoring proactively finds issues before anyone is affected.

Checks run every few minutes, day and night, from multiple geographic locations. The moment a journey slows, errors or fails outright, an alert is raised, often before the first real user would have encountered the problem.

Challenges we help you overcome

  • Undetected downtime: simulated user journeys expose service disruptions the instant they begin.
  • Slow page loads: performance bottlenecks pinpointed for immediate resolution.
  • Geographic variation: testing from multiple locations confirms consistent performance for users everywhere.
  • API failures and latency: reliability and response times of your API integrations verified continuously.
  • Traffic surges: trends in the data help you prepare for high-demand periods before they arrive.

Proof, not assumption

The strength of synthetic monitoring is that it measures outcomes, not components. It answers the question your customers actually care about (does the thing work?) rather than the proxy questions infrastructure dashboards answer. That’s why we recommend running it alongside 24×7 infrastructure monitoring: one watches the platform, the other watches the experience, and together they leave nowhere for a fault to hide.

It’s equally valuable for systems we didn’t build. Whether it’s a legacy platform, a third-party product or a mobile application backend, if it has an endpoint, we can prove it’s working. And every check we script becomes living documentation of how your critical journeys are supposed to behave, as part of our broader monitoring service.

If the honest answer to “is it working right now?” is “probably”, let’s make it “provably”. Tell us which journeys your business depends on and we’ll start watching them.

The benefits

The benefits of 24×7 Synthetic Monitoring

What you gain when 24×7 synthetic monitoring is delivered by Next2Software.

Proactive issue detection

Performance problems and failures identified before they ever reach a real user.

Application & API monitoring

Response times and functionality continuously verified across your digital services.

Global performance insights

Journeys tested from multiple geographic locations for a true picture of user experience.

Automated testing & alerts

Instant notification the moment a journey slows down, errors or stops working.

Is your checkout working right now? Are you sure?

Servers can look perfectly healthy while a critical user journey silently fails. Synthetic monitoring proves your key flows work, every few minutes, around the clock.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Real-user monitoring collects data from actual visitors, so it only tells you about problems after users have hit them. Synthetic monitoring proactively simulates user interactions on a schedule, catching failures at 3am on a quiet Sunday just as reliably as at lunchtime on launch day. The two are complementary, but synthetic is what gives you early warning.

Yes, that's the point. We script the journeys that matter most to your business: logins, checkouts, form submissions, API calls, booking flows. Each check is tailored to your applications and performance goals, and evolves as your product does.

No. Synthetic checks are lightweight, scheduled requests that behave like a single well-mannered user. They run in the background without any impact on real visitors' experience.

By exercising real journeys continuously, it surfaces expired certificates, broken authentication flows and unexpected changes in behaviour quickly. Issues that might otherwise linger unnoticed are flagged within minutes of appearing.

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