Pricing For Talent RAMP
Login Free Trial
Splunk Synthetic Monitoring ★ 4.5 · 26 reviews
Schedule Meeting
Marketplace › Security › Splunk Synthetic Monitoring  · Splunk Synthetic Monitoring alternatives

Splunk Synthetic Monitoring

Proactively monitor your digital experience with synthetic testing.

AiDOOS Verified SAAS Security
4.5 ★★★★☆ 26 reviews
Live in 72 hours 14-day free trial
Pricing
Tailored to you
AiDOOS generates your proposal instantly — scoped & ready in seconds
Schedule Meeting

14-day free trial · No credit card required

Category
Security
Deployment
Cloud (SaaS)
API Access
Yes
AiDOOS Deploy
72 hours

About Splunk Synthetic Monitoring

Splunk Synthetic Monitoring (formerly known as Rigor) is a cloud-based platform that enables organizations to actively monitor the performance and availability of their websites, APIs, and critical user journeys. It uses simulated user interactions from locations worldwide to detect and diagnose issues before they impact real users. The tool provides automated alerts, performance insights, and detailed diagnostics, helping teams maintain high-quality digital experiences. With its intuitive interface, users praise its ease of use and robust monitoring capabilities. Splunk Synthetic Monitoring is part of Cisco's observability suite, leveraging the Splunk ecosystem for comprehensive analytics and AI-driven insights. AiDOOS enhances deployment and adoption by providing managed services, expert onboarding, and tailored monitoring strategies, ensuring organizations rapidly realize value and optimize their monitoring investments.

Challenges It Solves

  • Detecting website downtime before it impacts users
  • Identifying performance bottlenecks across global regions
  • Ensuring API reliability and response times
  • Proactively testing critical user journeys and transactions

Use Cases

Website Uptime Monitoring

Ensure your website is always available and performing well for visitors globally.

API Reliability Monitoring

Continuously validate API endpoints for correctness, latency, and availability.

User Journey Testing

Simulate critical user workflows like login, checkout, and search to ensure a seamless experience.

Pricing

Custom pricing — built for your team

Splunk Synthetic Monitoring pricing is tailored to your organisation's size, integrations, and requirements. AiDOOS generates your proposal instantly — scoped & ready in seconds.

Starter Business Enterprise
Schedule a Meeting
14-day free trial available — No credit card required. Full access to all features.

Key Features

Uptime Monitoring

Continuously check your website and services for availability from multiple locations.

API Monitoring

Validate endpoints, response times, and data correctness.

Scripted Browser Tests

Simulate complex user journeys across dynamic web applications.

Vertical Web Testing

Use the Real Browser Monitor to test from real devices and browsers.

Alerting and Notifications

Customizable alerts via email, SMS, Slack, and webhooks.

Reporting and Analytics

Detailed performance reports, trends, and diagnostics.

What Reviewers Say AI-synthesized from 26 reviews

What works well

  • Easy to set up and use with an intuitive interface.
  • Comprehensive synthetic monitoring covering websites, APIs, and user journeys.
  • Robust performance monitoring capabilities for troubleshooting.

Common concerns

  • Pricing may not be transparent for small teams.
  • Advanced features may require technical knowledge to fully utilize.

Reviews

26 verified reviews
4.5
★★★★☆
out of 5 · 26 reviews
By segment
Enterprise81%
Mid-Market19%
L
Lead Consultant
"Taking proactive monitoring to the next level"
Splunk synthetic monitoring delivers detailed performance data for APIs and pages. It helped us pinpoint issues on our e-commerce site, ensuring service availability. It's excellent for alerting and reporting on site health, and it's easy to customize and set up new alerts and URLs. However, you can't trigger synthetic requests from different geographic locations, and alerts may be delayed by a few minutes due to indexing. It helped us identify and resolve production issues before they led to outages. Real-time monitoring for services and APIs greatly improves customer experience.
M
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"A look at Splunk synthetic monitoring"
Splunk Synthetic Monitoring is a real game-changer. It's like being an eagle soaring over your site, catching performance glitches before anyone notices. You can track worldwide performance, see how changes affect speed, and create custom dashboards that make troubleshooting easy. It's like having a superhero sidekick for your website, keeping everything running smoothly. The only annoyance is setting up complex scenarios can be tricky, like wrangling scripts if you're not a coding pro. Plus, the global checks are great, but the data can be overwhelming unless you're good at digging into dashboards. It's like an army of tiny robots constantly checking everything from loading times to database connections. If something goes wrong, they alert me before my human users even notice, saving time and stress while ensuring a flawless experience for everyone.
M
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Brief experience with Splunk"
Splunk Synthetic Monitoring does a great job at spotting and addressing performance issues proactively in my digital setup. The real-time insights let me keep a close eye on user experience, ensuring my applications and services perform optimally. The intuitive dashboard and customizable alerts make it simple to track and respond to problems quickly. Its robust features not only boost the reliability of my digital services but also contribute to a more seamless, efficient user experience. On the downside, some might find the pricing a bit steep, and there's a learning curve for newcomers to fully master everything. Still, the advantages of comprehensive performance monitoring likely outweigh these concerns for those seeking deep visibility into their digital environments. This tool has been key in proactively finding and fixing performance issues within my digital infrastructure. By continuously monitoring user experiences and identifying potential bottlenecks or failures, it keeps critical applications and services running seamlessly. This translates to better reliability, less downtime, and improved user satisfaction. The real-time insights have been invaluable for maintaining optimal performance and addressing issues before they affect end-users, significantly enhancing the stability and efficiency of my digital environment.
S
Software Engineer
"Complete Synthetic Monitoring with Splunk"
What makes Splunk Synthetic Monitoring stand out is its intuitive interface, a wide range of monitoring options, smooth integration with cloud platforms, scripting support in Python and Java, and excellent scalability. Although it's feature-rich, having better documentation and more training would improve the user experience and help developers tap into its full potential. It tackles critical issues by offering real-time insights into application performance, spotting bottlenecks, and enabling proactive fixes. This helps me keep applications running smoothly and ensures a great user experience.
W
Website developer / Hubspot Administrator
"Great centralized tool"
The API integration and centralization are excellent, allowing deep tracing of issues. It's user-friendly, and the learning curve isn't too steep compared to other options. But it's pricey; the main reason we didn't stick with it was cost, as complex projects become very expensive. We were evaluating tools for intrusion detection procedures, perhaps as a failsafe running in parallel with closed software. The idea was to help gauge and maintain procedures, detect things we hadn't yet developed, and check how well it handled reporting and incident reports to improve our processes.
D
Director of Product Management
"All-inclusive solution for proactive monitoring"
Being able to dig deep into a transaction tree and have key focus points on API or experience issues highlighted is a standout feature. Once you get the hang of it, implementation and ease of use are unmatched. The flexible feature set and modular offerings make Splunk a great fit for various business needs. However, for very large deployments, the cost can significantly exceed that of competitors. If you're switching from another system, there's a learning curve that some might find steeper. Splunk synthetic monitoring greatly improved our overall platform monitoring through proactive intrusion detection. We used it to develop a better find-and-fix program, automating tasks that previously required multiple solutions. It effectively surfaces issues that are directly tied to web user experiences and guides efforts toward optimization. Ultimately, we leveraged the tool to drive SLAs and highlight areas needing improvement.
I
IT Manager
"Performance and Monitoring Made Simple with Splunk Synthetic Monitoring"
Using this software ensures that employee compensation and promotion management is handled properly. It provides individual performance reviews, integrates with HR systems, and is effective for feedback and goal tracking. The customer self-service portal is efficient, and the software is both adaptable and intuitive. Splunk Synthetic has a unique design that outshines competitors. The learning curve is gentle, requiring no professional training. Having used similar tools for years, I can say Splunk Synthetic is the best I've encountered. Its features are top-notch. Introducing it in our organization has boosted performance management, increased productivity through better employee recognition, and streamlined promotions.
N
Network Security team lead
"User-friendly with a strong TAC support team"
The way parsing is handled in this solution stands out. Up to now, while I'm still learning the product, I haven't come across any downsides. In production, the low number of false positives has proven extremely useful.
L
Lead Consultant
"Splunk assessment"
An excellent monitoring solution that's quite effective for identifying issues. I don't see any downsides. Overall, it's very handy for locating logs with various search filters, and it covers logging, monitoring, and issue tracing all in one.
E
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Top Choice for Proactive Issue Detection"
The interface is intuitive, enabling users to catch, communicate, and fix problems swiftly on both web pages and APIs. It sends alerts ahead of time to address performance issues before customers notice them. It's beneficial across the board; occasionally, log searches may take longer depending on the network, which is really up to the user. Essentially, this tool lets you stay ahead of any performance glitches in your service or API prior to deployment. Rather than waiting for complaints from clients, you're informed of the problem and can sort it out beforehand.

Enterprise Readiness

SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001

Identity & Access

SSO Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Ping Identity
RBAC None
Audit Logs

Data Security

At restAES-256
In transitTLS 1.2+
Key mgmtVendor-managed

SLA & Availability

Uptime SLA99.9%
RPO
RTO
Pen test

Compliance & Portability

Data residencyUS, EU
Data export
Right to erasure

Integrations

PagerDuty

Integrates Splunk Synthetic Monitoring alerts with PagerDuty for on-call incident response.

Native 1-2 hours ⇄ Bi-directional ⚡ AiDOOS Pre-wired

Slack

Sends synthetic monitoring alerts and notifications to Slack channels for team visibility.

Native < 1 hour ⚡ AiDOOS Pre-wired

Jira

Automatically creates Jira tickets when synthetic monitoring detects performance issues.

Native 1-2 hours ⇄ Bi-directional

Splunk Enterprise

Feeds synthetic monitoring data into Splunk Enterprise for advanced correlation and analysis.

Native 2-4 hours ⚡ AiDOOS Pre-wired

Webex Teams

Sends alerts and updates to Webex Teams spaces for team notification.

Native < 1 hour

Terraform

Manage and automate Splunk Synthetic Monitoring configuration via Terraform provider.

Third_Party 2-3 hours

Amazon CloudWatch

Export synthetic metrics to Amazon CloudWatch for unified cloud monitoring.

Third_Party 1-2 hours

Governance & Compliance

EU AI Act

No data available

Data Processing Agreement

No data available

Sub-processors

No data available

Right to Erasure

No data available

Change Notifications

No data available

NIST AI RMF

No data available

AiDOOS Managed Deployment

Deploy Splunk Synthetic Monitoring in 72 hours

AiDOOS handles setup, CRM integration, SSO config, and user provisioning. Your team goes live — not your IT department.

12
Deployments
94%
Adoption rate
4.8/5
Post-deploy sat.
2-4 weeks
Time to value

Prerequisites

  • Active Splunk Cloud or Splunk Enterprise instance
  • Administrator access for integration configuration
  • Valid Splunk Synthetic Monitoring license

Configuration Options

  • Setup monitors via Terraform
  • Configure alerting integrations (PagerDuty, Slack)
  • Enable SSO with Okta or SAML

How Splunk Synthetic Monitoring Compares

Product AI & Analytics Ease of Use Enterprise Features Pricing Integrations Mobile Experience Quick Setup Customer Support Rating Price/mo
Splunk Synthetic Monitoring This product
Good Excellent Excellent Fair Good Good Good Excellent ★ 4.5 $Custom/user
Datadog
Excellent Good Excellent Fair Excellent Good Good Excellent $15/user
Catchpoint
Good Good Good Poor Good Fair Fair Good $Custom/user
New Relic
Excellent Good Excellent Good Excellent Good Good Good $0/user
Virtual Delivery Center · A new delivery category

A Virtual Delivery Center for Splunk Synthetic Monitoring

Pre-vetted experts and AI agents in the loop, assembled as a delivery pod. Pay in Delivery Units — universal pricing across roles, seniority, and tech stacks. No hiring, no contracting, no procurement cycle.

  • Plans from $2,000 — Starter Pack, 10 Delivery Units, 90 days
  • Refundable on unused Delivery Units, anytime — no questions asked
  • Re-delivery guarantee on acceptance miss
  • Pre-flight delivery sizing — you see the plan before you commit

How a Virtual Delivery Center delivers Splunk Synthetic Monitoring

Outcome-based delivery via AiDOOS’s VDC model.  Why VDC vs traditional consulting? →

Outcome-Based

Pay for results, not hours

Milestone-Driven

Clear deliverables at each phase

Expert Network

Access to certified specialists

Implementation Timeline

1
Discover
Requirements & assessment
2
Integrate
Setup & data migration
3
Validate
Testing & security audit
4
Rollout
Deployment & training
5
Optimize
Performance tuning
Schedule a Meeting

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Splunk Synthetic Monitoring?
Splunk Synthetic Monitoring continuously tests your applications and APIs from locations around the world to detect availability and performance issues before users are impacted.
How quickly can Synthetic Monitoring detect performance issues?
Synthetic Monitoring runs tests as frequently as every minute, alerting within seconds of detecting a failure or threshold breach, enabling rapid response.
Does Splunk Synthetic Monitoring support multi-step API tests?
Yes, it allows you to build complex browser and API checks with multiple steps, validating workflows and end-to-end transactions.
Can I integrate Synthetic Monitoring with my existing alerting tools?
Absolutely. It integrates natively with Slack, PagerDuty, Jira, Webex Teams, and allows webhook-based integrations for custom alert routing.
How does AiDOOS help deploy Splunk Synthetic Monitoring?
AiDOOS provides pre-configured deployment, expert setup, and management, ensuring faster time-to-value and seamless integration with your existing stack.

Quick Stats

★ 4.5
Rating
12
Deployments
72 hours
Live in
99.9%
Uptime SLA
Deployment Complexity
Moderate (3/5)
Schedule a Meeting

Vendor

Cisco
Founded 1984 · 10000+ employees · San Jose, CA
Verified Vendor

Get an Instant Proposal

You'll get a structured implementation plan — scope, timeline, and cost — in seconds.