Synthetic #Monitoring @DevOpsSummit @Catchpoint #DevOps #SDN #AI #CD

This post originally appeared as a bylined article in Website Magazine. Synthetic monitoring is hardly a new technology. It's been around almost as long as the commercial World Wide Web has. But the importance of monitoring the performance and availability of a web application by simulating users' interactions with that application, from around the globe, has never been more important. We've seen prominent vendors in the broad APM space add this technology with new development or partnerships just in the last 18 months.