Add a Synthetic transaction

1. In SolarWinds Observability SaaS, click Add Data at the top.

2. In the Add Data dialog Intro, click Monitor my website.

3. Click Synthetic transaction.

4. Enter a name to identify your Synthetic transaction.

5. Enter a description for your Synthetic transaction.

6. Select a location category to test from: Regions, Countries, or Cities.

7. Select the Synthetic transaction location(s).

   If applicable, you can select more than one location. For example, if you selected to test from Cities, you can select both Boston and Los Angeles locations.

8. Select the Synthetic transaction test interval: 5 minutes — 4 hours.

9. Select the website connection.
   

   The Connect to Website field is optional.

   If you want to modify when an outage has occurred for your entity, click Outage Configuration. The default settings considers your entity down if it is unavailable from any of the selected test locations within 2 consecutive test intervals.

   1. Click Custom.

   2. Select any or all from the drop-down menu.

   3. Increase or decrease the number of consecutive test intervals.

   The Outage configuration field is optional.

10. If you want to configure a custom user-agent header, click the drop-down and enter your user-agent header configuration.

11. Click Add Tags to add any tags to your Synthetic transaction. Enter a tag key and value, and then click Add Tag. Repeat this step as necessary for any tags you want to add. Click Next.

    The Add tags step is optional.

12. Select the screen resolution: Desktop, Tablet, Mobile, or Custom. If you select custom, adjust the Width and Height.

    Tablet and Mobile screen resolution modes are for resolution only and do not simulate tablet or mobile behaviors.

13. Define the steps you want your Synthetic transaction to take. You can enter between 1 to 30 steps for your Synthetic transaction. Click Next.

    As you start entering steps, SolarWinds Observability SaaS will make command and element suggestions based on your website selection. Each Synthetic transaction has a default timeout of 60 seconds, meaning that SolarWinds Observability SaaS will try to execute the Synthetic transaction for 60 seconds before resulting in an error or failure.

14. Review all of the Synthetic transaction settings. Click Add Synthetic transaction.