New Relic Synthetics Introduces Audit Logs and Secure Credentials API

New Relic Synthetics has introduced new features aimed at improving the management and monitoring of website and app performance through audit logs and a secure credentials API. These enhancements allow organizations to track changes made by users to synthetic monitoring scripts, ensuring transparency and accountability by providing detailed logs that include who made changes and when. This functionality is particularly useful for version control, enabling rollbacks if necessary, and helps prevent future issues by identifying the source of problematic changes. The secure credentials API automates the process of updating sensitive information like passwords across multiple scripts, reducing manual effort and increasing efficiency by allowing updates to be made globally with a single command. These tools support the seamless operation of synthetic monitoring, which is crucial for maintaining the uptime and performance of web services in dynamic enterprise environments.