Key Gomez Synthetic Monitoring – Backbone Features and Capabilities

Monitor the operational availability and performance of your key web pages and transactions to ensure they perform properly across multiple browsers.

• Manage service level agreements (SLAs) with vendors.
• Baseline web-site performance across key geographies.
• Benchmark performance against key competitors.
• Accelerate problem identification with instant test diagnostics using HTTP, Ping, Trace Route and DNS Lookup testing.
• Accelerate root-cause analysis of application, network and partner issues.
• Analyze performance trends and support capacity planning.
• Validate hardware and software changes and new features before deployment.
• Monitor and optimize performance across Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers.

Why Use Gomez Synthetic Monitoring – Backbone?

Optimize performance and availability for your web applications.

• Proactively monitor web applications 24/7.
• Ensure your key web pages and transactions perform properly — all the time, in all locations and across multiple browsers.

Detect and rapidly warn the appropriate staff of web application performance issues with actionable repair diagnostics.

• Be instantly notified about issues that impact your business, before your customers experience problems.
• Troubleshoot with accuracy using detailed object-level, page, connection and host data across multiple browsers.
• Diagnostic details — DNS, Connect Time, SSL, First Byte and Content Download times and errors — for every object on every page are at your fingertips, and stored for post-mortem and routine review.
• Rapidly find the root cause of performance problems down to the exact line of code through integration with the patented PurePath Technology® of dynaTrace, a division of Compuware.
• Integration with dynaTrace’s PurePath Technology captures timing and code-level context for all Gomez transactions; end-to-end, across all tiers, the database and back.

Protect revenue sources and critical business processes.

• Ensure your most important pages and transactions perform properly, even when user traffic is low.
• Benchmark your web site’s performance against your competition to understand the performance levels necessary to increase market share and retain customers.

Make smart technology investments and manage service providers effectively.

• Quantify the performance benefits of technology investments such as CDNs, virtualization and infrastructure changes.
• Objectively measure service level agreements (SLAs).
• Leverage the world’s largest performance testing network.The Gomez Global Performance Testing Network provides enterprise-grade servers running in more than 150 high-bandwidth data centers around the globe on the Internet backbone.

Provide flexibility and self-service control to meet your changing business requirements.

• Flexible subscription model with on-demand consumption-based pricing.
• Easy-to-use test setup and diagnostics put you in control of the testing.
• Create “record once, playback anywhere” tests.