Datadog has announced the availability of Synthetic Monitoring, a new layer of visibility on its platform that allows users to monitor applications and API endpoints via simulated user requests. This feature helps ensure uptime, identify regional issues, track application performance, and manage SLAs and SLOs by unifying it with metrics, traces, and logs. Synthetic Monitoring provides proactive user experience monitoring through Datadog Synthetic API tests and browser tests, which can simulate different types of traffic such as HTTP, DNS, TCP, SSL, and ICMP. The feature also offers end-to-end visibility for validating that users can perform critical business transactions, and minimizes alert fatigue by allowing finely tuned alerts based on synthetic test data. With the integration with Datadog APM and collaboration tools like Slack and PagerDuty, Synthetic Monitoring provides a simulated user's view of applications, enabling high-level performance insights to quickly jump-start investigations.