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 the testing location(s).

   1. Select a Public location category to test: Regions, Countries, or Cities.

      1. 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.

   2. Select the supported Private Probe(s) you want to test.

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

8. (Optional): Select the website connection.
   

9. (Optional): To modify the User-Agent Header, click User-Agent Header. Click Edit and make the desired changes.

   Note: The User-Agent header is Mozilla/5.0 (Linux) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SolarWindsTransactionBot/1.0 Safari/537.36 Chrome/145.0.7632.116 by default. This header is not interchangeable with the Availability monitoring User-Agent header.

10. (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.

11. (Optional): 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.

12. Click Transaction Options and configure your transaction settings.

    1. 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.

    2. Click the Capture and Store toggle to save screenshots and Advanced Analytics ( this option is enabled by default).

    3. Select whether to make all transaction steps mandatory (enabled by default) or select to make some steps optional.

    4. Set the Transaction timeout in seconds. This option is set to 85 seconds by default.

13. Define the steps you want your Synthetic transaction to take. You can start from scratch, or click Load Definition and start from a previously created Synthetic transaction. 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.