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Date Published
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Lauren Zuniga
Word count
1041
Language
English
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Summary

In a rapidly evolving digital environment, ensuring seamless user experiences is paramount for organizations aiming to maintain their reputation and revenue. Digital experience monitoring (DEM) has gained prominence as a method for optimizing user interactions with business-critical applications. Datadog's Synthetic Monitoring tool aids in this endeavor by offering end-to-end testing for websites, mobile applications, and APIs, allowing issues to be identified and resolved before affecting users. Recent updates to the platform enhance the test creation process with features like synthetic test templates, browser test recommendations, revamped multistep API test creation, and an Element Inspector for mobile app testing. These updates facilitate quicker DEM adoption by simplifying test setup, improving accuracy, and ensuring tests align with real user behaviors, thus enhancing the overall reliability and performance of applications across various devices.