Synthetic Monitoring vs Real User Monitoring for APIs
Synthetic monitoring catches API failures RUM cannot see outside browsers.
Hyperscaler Review Editors
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4 stories in Infrastructure Monitoring Tooling.
Synthetic monitoring catches API failures RUM cannot see outside browsers.
Ground alerts in user impact, not arbitrary metric thresholds.
Choose agent or agentless monitoring based on workload type, not preference.
CloudWatch wins for AWS-native stacks, but Grafana excels with Kubernetes workloads.