Synthetic monitoring that proves your critical flows actually work

Synthetic monitoring uses scripted, automated checks to simulate a real user interacting with your site — logging in, filling a form, or completing a checkout — on a schedule, from real browsers. Instead of waiting for a customer to report that something's broken, synthetic monitoring runs the journey for you continuously and alerts you the moment a step fails.

A monitoring tool drives a real headless browser (or calls your API directly) through a predefined sequence of steps and asserts the expected outcome at each one — for example, that a dashboard appears after login or an order-confirmation page appears after checkout. Uptura runs these flows from multiple regions on a schedule and records timing plus a screenshot of every run.

Yes — those are exactly the journeys synthetic monitoring is built for. Uptura scripts each flow with a dedicated test account, and for checkout it uses your payment provider's sandbox or a test product, so runs verify the whole path works end to end without creating real orders or charging real cards.

Synthetic transaction monitoring is synthetic monitoring focused on multi-step transactions — the sequences that make you money, like signup and checkout. It confirms not just that a page loads, but that the entire transaction completes successfully, step by step.

Uptime monitoring tells you a page responds with a 200. Synthetic monitoring goes further and proves the page actually works — that a user can log in, add to cart, and pay. A site can be 'up' while its checkout is completely broken; synthetic monitoring is how you catch that.

No. Uptura runs payment flows against your provider's test or sandbox mode (for example, Stripe test cards) or against a dedicated $0 test product, so scheduled checks confirm the flow works without ever placing a real order or moving real money.