# Synthetic Monitoring. Catch Failures Before Customers Do. > Catch failures before your customers do. Scheduled API, TLS, and Playwright browser checks from multiple regions, unified with your logs and metrics. Source: https://openobserve.ai/synthetic-monitoring/ --- Catch failures before your customers do, with scheduled API and browser checks unified alongside the rest of your observability. - [Start Free Cloud Trial](https://cloud.openobserve.ai/web/login/) - [Talk to a Human](/demo/) ### Know First, Not Last Scheduled checks on your APIs, certificates, and user journeys surface breakage before real traffic ever hits it. ### Monitoring as Code Browser checks run real Playwright scripts. No recorder, no proprietary DSL. ### No New Silo Every check result lands in a native stream, so the SQL, dashboards, and alerts you already use work on day one. ## Know About Outages Before Your Customers Do ### Protocol Checks - **API and Endpoint Monitoring** - Check HTTP endpoints, TCP ports, and SSH connectivity on any schedule, from once a minute to once a day. Assert on status codes, response times, and body content. - **TLS Certificate Monitoring** - Stop discovering expired certificates from browser warnings. Assert on days remaining and get a calm alert weeks before expiry. [Learn More](https://openobserve.ai/docs/user-guide/data-exploration/synthetics/) ### Browser Checks - **Real Playwright Scripts** - Run standard @playwright/test scripts as production monitors, version-controlled and code-reviewed like everything else. - **Full User Journey Coverage** - Test what your customers actually do, log in, add to cart, check out. Every failed run captures screenshots and traces. [Learn More](https://openobserve.ai/docs/user-guide/data-exploration/synthetics/) ### Unified Results - **Results Are a Stream** - Every check result is an event in your synthetics_results stream. Query it with SQL, graph p95 latency by region, correlate a failed check with the logs and traces that explain it. - **Alerting You Already Own** - No second alerting system to configure. Thresholds, anomaly detection, and gap detection, with notifications to Slack, PagerDuty, Teams, email, and webhooks. [Learn More](https://openobserve.ai/docs/user-guide/data-exploration/synthetics/) ### Global & Private Coverage - **Multi-Region Execution** - Run every check from multiple geographies and see what a customer in Frankfurt sees, not just what your health check sees. - **Private Network Agent** - Internal APIs, staging environments, and admin panels get the same coverage as your public site via a lightweight self-hosted agent. [Learn More](https://openobserve.ai/docs/user-guide/data-exploration/synthetics/) ## Measured against industry leaders Same telemetry, same workloads, one platform. Every number is OpenObserve against a named vendor - not an industry average. 8x cost reduction means you can unify your observability into a single platform. 140x storage means longer retention doesn't necessarily mean expensive bills. 5x to 15x faster queries mean dashboards load in milliseconds, not minutes. See how much you would save switching today. - [See all comparisons](/comparison/) ## Teams trust OpenObserve to preemptively catch outages ## Synthetic Monitoring FAQs ### What is the best synthetic monitoring tool? OpenObserve’s synthetic monitoring runs scheduled API, TLS, and real Playwright browser checks from multiple regions, with every result landing in the same platform as your logs, metrics, and traces, not a separate silo. Most teams have their first monitor and alert running in under five minutes. ### What synthetic monitoring does OpenObserve support? OpenObserve supports protocol checks (HTTP/HTTPS, TCP, SSH, TLS certificate expiry) and full browser checks using real @playwright/test scripts, run from multiple global regions or from inside your private network via a self-hosted agent. Every check result lands in the same synthetics_results stream you already query with SQL. ### How do I get started with Synthetic Monitoring? Create your first monitor with an HTTP check or a Playwright script, pick regions and schedule, results flow into the synthetics_results stream within a minute. ### What types of checks are supported? Protocol checks (HTTP/HTTPS, TCP, TLS, SSH) and full browser checks via @playwright/test scripts. ### Can I monitor services inside my private network? Yes, a lightweight self-hosted agent runs the same checks from inside your network, reporting to the same results stream as cloud checks. ### Is it safe to run browser scripts in OpenObserve Cloud? Yes, every check runs in its own isolated microVM with no shared workers between runs or organizations. ## Explore guides, videos, and articles to help you get the most out of Synthetic Monitoring. ### Synthetic Monitoring demo in 7 minutes [Learn more](https://youtu.be/UEZ-PNDc1cQ) ### Browser checks with Playwright [Learn more](https://openobserve.ai/docs/user-guide/data-exploration/synthetics/) ### Catch It Before Your Customers Do: Synthetic Monitoring Is Here [Learn more](https://openobserve.ai/blog/synthetic-monitoring-release/) - [Explore All Blogs](/blog/) ## Ready to get started? Stop letting customers find your outages first. - [Get Started For Free](https://cloud.openobserve.ai/web/login/) - [Schedule Demo](/demo/)