Synthetics Canary

• Its Configurable script that monitor your APIs, URLs, Websites etc.

• Reproduce what your customer do programatically to find issues before customers are impacted.

• The scripts can be written in Node.js or Python.

• Integration with CloudWatch Alarms is possible.

• Check availability and latency of your endpoints and can store load time data and screenshots of UI.

• Programmatic access to a headless Google Chrome browser.

• Scripts can be run once or on a regular schedule.

Syntheics Canary Blueprints

• Heartbeat Monitors

  • Allows to Load URL, store screenshot and an HTTP archive file.

• API Canary

  • Test basic read and write functions of REST APIs.

• Broker Link Checker

  • Check all links inside the URL that you are testing.

• Visual Monitioring

  • Compare a screenshot taken during a canary run with a baseline screenshot.

• Canary Recorder

  • Used with CloudWatch Synthetics Recorder (record your actions on a website and automatically generates a script for that).

• GUI Workflow Builder

  • Verifies that actions can be taken on your webpage.