The Synthetic Monitoring App enables you to monitor your Web application and measure critical KPIs such as application performance and availability. This session showcases how this app can simulate user interactions around the clock and set up alerts when your application breaches its performance and availability SLAs. Elias Haddad shows how you can proactively detect application problems before your customers do. Learn how you can compare the end user performance of your application from different locations, various browsers and from a myriad of devices and isolate performance bottlenecks to prevent outages.

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©
2014
Splunk
Inc.
Elias
Haddad
Senior
Sales
Engineer
–
BD,
Splunk
Using
Selenium
and
Splunk
for
TransacFon
Monitoring
Insight

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3. Agenda
! IntroducFon
to
SyntheFc
Monitoring
! IntroducFon
to
Selenium
! Demo
of
Selenium
IDE
! Splunk
App
for
SyntheFc
TransacFon
Monitoring
– Architecture
– ConfiguraFon
and
Requirements
– Metrics
Captured
! Demo
3

4. SyntheFc
Monitoring
Intro
4
! Simulate
End
User
InteracFons
! Measure
Performance
and
Availability
of
your
ApplicaFon
! Measure
TransacFon
Response
Time
! Compare
performance
and
availability
by:
– Geography
and
locaFon
– Browser
– OperaFng
System

5. SyntheFc
Monitoring
Benefits
5
! Monitor
your
applicaFon
performance
and
availability
24x7
! Be
proacFve
! Measure
end-­‐user
response
Fme
! Be
the
first
to
know
your
applicaFon
is
down
or
slow
! Measure
performance
and
availability
of
Saas
applicaFons
! Baseline
and
analyze
trends
across
geographies
! Measure
your
applicaFon
and
transacFon
SLAs
! Real
user
monitoring
and
syntheFc
monitoring
complement
each
other

6. What
is
Selenium
6
! Selenium
is
a
browser
automaFon
Tool
! Usage:
– FuncFonal
tesFng
is
primary
usage
– Can
be
used
for
administraFve
automaFon
purposes
! Support
of
Largest
Browser
Vendors
– Firefox
– IE
– Opera
– Safari
! Support
for
mobile
device
automaFon

7. Selenium
Components
7
! Selenium
IDE
– Firefox
Add-­‐on
– Allows
to
quickly
create
automaFon
scripts
– Record
and
Replay
– Allows
to
export
script
in
mulFple
languages
! Selenium
Webdriver
– CollecFon
of
languages
specific
bindings
to
drive
browser
automaFon
– Automate
browser-­‐based
regression
tests
– Simulate
interacFons
across
mulFple
environments

8. Demo
Selenium
IDE
8

9. Splunk
App
for
SyntheFc
TransacFon
Monitoring
9
! AutomaFon
scripts
need
to
be
recorded
in
Selenium
IDE
! Splunk
App
for
SyntheFc
TransacFon
Monitoring
allows
you
to
monitor
end-­‐user
performance
! Measure
performance
from
different
locaFons,
browsers
and
operaFon
systems
! App
includes
the
following
components:
– Python
Module
to
measure
response
Fme,
OS,
browser
type,
locaFon,
etc.
– Scripted
inputs
to
replay
Selenium
Scripts
and
index
results
– Dashboards
to
capture
and
compare
different
metrics
– Scripted
input
to
measure
network
performance
and
latency

10. Why
Splunk
and
Selenium
10
• Leverage
the
power
of
Selenium
as
an
open-­‐
source
automaFon
tool
• Leverage
Splunk
Enterprise
to:
– Measure
performance
of
your
applicaFon
from
different
geographies
– Measure
your
applicaFon
SLAs
– Leverage
Splunk
agile
and
flexible
reporFng
– Leverage
the
power
of
Splunk
as
an
analyFcs
pladorm
– Correlate
data
with
other
metrics
such
as
ê ApplicaFon
log
files
to
capture
applicaFon
errors
and
back-­‐end
performance
ê Stream
App
metrics
for
real
user
applicaFon
metrics
ê Network
metrics
ê Infrastructure
metrics
Screenshot
here
Enterprise
Scalability
Search
and
Inves4ga4on
Proac4ve
Monitoring
Opera4onal
Visibility
Real-­‐4me
Business
Insights

11. App
Architecture
11
! AutomaFon
scripts
need
to
be
executed
on
Splunk
Universal
Forwarder
! Forwarders
are
ideally
located
in
same
applicaFon
end
user
geographies
! Scripted
inputs
are
used
to
schedule
script
execuFon
! Splunk
Deployment
Manager
can
be
used
to
manage
– Scripted
inputs
distribuFon
across
Universal
Forwarder
– Push
configuraFon
and
Selenium
Webdriver
to
Universal
Forwarder
Forwarder2
Geography2
Search
head
Forwarder3
Geography3
Forwarder1
Geography
1
Indexer2
Indexer1

12. App
ConfiguraFon
12
! Prerequisites
– Import
Python
Modules
to
your
Python
Environment
(selenium
and
unigest)
– Recommended
Installing
New
Python
– Copy
Selenium
Webdriver
on
all
Forwarder
where
script
will
be
executed
– Browser
need
to
be
installed
on
universal
forwarder
machines
! Selenium
IDE
used
to
Record
Scripts
and
export
them
in
Python
! Script
are
scheduled
to
be
executed
automaFcally
using
Scripted
inputs
!
Splunk
TransacFon
class
needs
to
be
used
to
define
transacFon
start
and
end

13. Metrics
Captured
by
the
App
13
Performance
by
Geography
• Errors
by
geography
• SLAs
by
geography
• Availability
by
geography
• Performance
by
geography
• Network
latency
by
geography
Screenshot
here

14. Metrics
Captured
by
the
App
14
Performance
by
ApplicaFon
• Availability
by
applicaFon
• Performance
by
applicaFon
• SLAs
by
applicaFon
• Errors
by
applicaFon
Screenshot
here

15. Metrics
Captured
by
the
App
15
TransacFon
Response
Time
• TransacFon
Response
Time
• TransacFon
Error
Count
• Metric
Overlay
with
– Network
Latency
– Network
Packet
Loss
Screenshot
here

16. Demo
Splunk
App
for
SyntheFc
TransacFon
Monitoring
16
16

17. Summary
17
! SyntheFc
monitoring
allows
you
to
detect
problems
before
your
customers
do
! Selenium
is
an
open-­‐source
widely
used
automaFon
tool
! Splunk
App
for
SyntheFc
Monitoring
leverages
the
power
of
Selenium
automaFon
and
Splunk
as
a
machine
data
pladorm
! Combine
the
power
of
Splunk
and
syntheFc
monitoring
to
have
a
broader
view
of
your
applicaFon
performance
and
availability

18. THANK
YOU