description Elastic Synthetics Overview
Elastic Synthetics is a technology that uses machine learning to identify and automatically fix performance bottlenecks impacting website speed, primarily focusing on optimizing images and reducing server response times for improved user experience.
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What can an Elastic Synthetics browser monitor test?
A browser monitor runs scripted user journeys, such as loading a page, signing in, clicking controls, and checking visible results. Elastic uses a Playwright-based synthetics agent for these browser journeys.
Is Elastic Synthetics an automatic website speed optimizer?
No, it measures availability and performance but does not automatically compress images or rewrite a slow server. Teams use the resulting timings, errors, screenshots, and traces to diagnose and fix the application themselves.
Can Elastic Synthetics run from inside a private network?
Yes, organizations can deploy private locations to test internal services that Elastic's public testing locations cannot reach. The results are then viewed alongside other observability data in Kibana.
How does Elastic Synthetics differ from Elastic Real User Monitoring?
Synthetics runs controlled checks on a schedule even when no customer is visiting the site. Real User Monitoring records performance experienced by actual visitors in their browsers, so the two data sources answer different questions.
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