# Synthetic Monitoring Overview

## Knowing how your applications and APIs perform is critical to your success

When your business and good name depend upon peak digital performance, downtime due to complex digital performance issues is never an option. Apica’s platform ensures you have the highest availability and unmatched digital performance. You can now uphold your service levels by proactively monitoring your most important digital assets from your end-user’s perspective.

## How it works

Apica’s globally distributed load testing and monitoring agents can regularly and programmatically check your business-critical applications, API services, authentication services, certificates, and DNS services (to name a few) for peak performance and service-level compliance. With a varied choice of predefined monitoring and diagnostic checks, you can find what fits your needs, or leverage your own checks and deploy them to the Apica platform. In addition, our platform can support monitoring of legacy desktop applications or applications requiring custom scripting.

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## Highly Customizable

Apica brings together an unmatched global testing and monitoring network with an easy-to-use, fully integrated SaaS platform. Run customizable performance health checks and access meaningful testing metrics anywhere, on any device. Custom and automated scripts allow our clients to create and test unique user scenarios in real time. The result? User-centric insights into application functionality, server performance, and end- to-end transactions.

## 360 Degree Visibility

Our monitoring network is built on an industry-leading global backbone distributed across every continent. In addition, we offer powerful private agents to provide deeper visibility into internal applications.

Our platform provides API integration support for leading APM, cloud, CDN, analytics, and alerting solutions such as AppDynamics, Microsoft Azure, Akamai, Google Analytics, and PagerDuty. These metrics are correlated directly with Apica platform data providing you an unprecedented view into your application’s performance and user experiences.

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