# Explore Synthetic Monitoring

PerfAgents provides continuous synthetic monitoring to ensure your applications and APIs remain available, reliable, and performant at all times. It runs scheduled checks from multiple locations to detect downtime, performance degradation, and functional failures before they impact users.

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### Website Monitoring

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#### Availability Monitoring

Track real-time uptime and response times for critical URLs and endpoints.
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#### SSL Management

Proactively monitor SSL certificate validity and expiration dates.
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#### Performance Validation

Ensure continuous performance health and basic availability for key entry points.
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### REST API Monitoring

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#### API Reliability

Monitor endpoints for availability, performance, and functional correctness.
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#### Functional Chaining

Support multi-step requests with dynamic data passing and payload configuration.
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#### Automated Validation

Verify responses through status code, body, and latency assertions.
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#### Backend Health

Ensure backend service integrity with custom headers and authorization support.
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### Sequence Monitoring

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#### Workflow Simulation

Simulate end-to-end user journeys like login, search, and checkout.
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#### Framework Support

Execute browser-based flows using Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, or Cypress.
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#### UX Validation

Continuously monitor the user experience to detect UI failures and performance regressions.
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