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Date Published
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Philipp Kastner
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485
Language
American English
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Summary

Dynatrace provides integrated synthetic monitoring capabilities that allow users to monitor application availability and business-critical workflows globally using real browsers, and easily monitor APIs with HTTP monitors. Besides its built-in features, Dynatrace supports integration with external synthetic monitoring solutions through an API, enabling users to push external synthetic test results into the platform. This integration allows for comprehensive data analysis in one location, correlating synthetic data with real user data to identify problems. Users can send various types of data, including test results and events, and link external data to Dynatrace applications. To utilize this feature, users must generate an API token with appropriate access, and can begin integration with available tools like a Python example on GitHub. External synthetic data appears alongside Dynatrace monitors and can be tagged for easy identification. As of May 2020, this service is billed via DEM units, and Dynatrace welcomes feedback and partnership inquiries.