Synthetic Monitoring

This helps you set up automated tests that simulate real user behavior to catch issues before your actual users do. You'll write Playwright scripts that walk through critical paths like login flows, checkout processes, or API sequences, then run them on a schedule. The skill includes examples for browser-based testing, API monitoring, and scheduled runs with metric tracking. The best practices are solid, especially the reminder to test error scenarios and rotate test data. It's basically proactive monitoring that pretends to be a user so you know when something breaks at 3am instead of finding out from angry support tickets.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill synthetic-monitoring --agent claude-code

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Overview

Set up synthetic monitoring to automatically simulate real user journeys, API workflows, and critical business transactions to detect issues and validate performance.

When to Use

End-to-end workflow validation
API flow testing
User journey simulation
Transaction monitoring
Critical path validation

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

// synthetic-tests.js
const { chromium } = require("playwright");

class SyntheticMonitor {
  constructor(config = {}) {
    this.baseUrl = config.baseUrl || "https://app.example.com";
    this.timeout = config.timeout || 30000;
  }

  async testUserFlow() {
    const browser = await chromium.launch();
    const page = await browser.newPage();
    const metrics = { steps: {} };
    const startTime = Date.now();

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