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What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

Synthetic testing is an IT process that uses software to discover and diagnose performance issues with user journeys by simulating real-user activity. For example, teams can program synthetic test tools to send large volumes of simultaneous resource requests to a new application and evaluate how well it responds. HTTP monitors.

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Ingesting JMeter, temperature and humidity metrics: A Dynatrace innovation day report

Dynatrace

Dynatrace has recently enhanced its Metrics APIs, allowing everyone to send any type of metric with any set of data dimension to Davis, Dynatrace’s AI engine. Christian Inzko , Performance Engineer out of our Klagenfurt Lab, is running a lot of performance tests to validate performance and scalability of our Dynatrace clusters.

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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

And we definitely couldn’t replay test non-functional requirements like caching and logging user interaction. In such cases, we were not testing for response data but overall behavior. So, we relied on higher-level metrics-based testing: AB Testing and Sticky Canaries. Tool: Replay Testing — Validation at Scale!

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing? For example, you can use load testing tools to see how your application performs with a certain number of simultaneous users.

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Release readiness through AI-based white box resiliency testing with JMeter and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Any testing that’s done without getting insights with an observability platform or monitoring solution ends up consuming too much time to analyze problems. Our solution to modernize this legacy approach is an approach we call white box testing. from other test tools or real users).

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Tutorial: Guide to automated SRE-driven performance engineering

Dynatrace

After a new build gets deployed and automated tests executed, SLIs are evaluated against their SLOs and, depending on that result, a build is considered good (promoted) or bad (rolled back). “ Firstly, start by installing the Dynatrace OneAgent on the hosts where you’ll be running your application test. SimpleNodeJsService.

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Hops & DevOps

Dynatrace

Dynatrace also assists in shifting left via integrations such as JIRA, Jenkins, Ansible, load testing tools, and ITSM products – seamlessly becoming part of their ecosystem too. Over the years, many technologies had been brought into the business making an increasingly complex environment with a plethora of tooling surrounding them.

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