Multiple types of synthetic monitors are available for managing your synthetics. In addition, synthetic monitors are configurable from one or more locations.
| Synthetic Monitor | Description |
|---|---|
| HTTP / HTTPS | Graph response time for your website over time. Drill down on recent outages and verify what is causing the performance degradation. |
| DNS | Track the time taken to resolve the DNS query. |
| FTP | Monitor FTP server |
| PING | Track response time and packet loss for an entire application. |
| POP3 / IMAP / SMTP | Monitor email delivery rates. |
| [RTT](/integrations/web-services/synthetic/synthetic-monitors-new/rtt-synthetic-monitor/) | Monitor the time taken for the email to drive from the SMTP server to IMAP or POP3 server. |
| [SIP](/integrations/web-services/synthetic/synthetic-monitors-new/sip-synthetic-monitor/) | Monitor the user VOIP communications availability or performance issues. |
| [SSL](/integrations/web-services/synthetic/synthetic-monitors-new/ssl-synthetic-monitor/) | Replace SSL certificates before the expiration date. |
| [TCP](/integrations/web-services/synthetic/synthetic-monitors-new/tcp-synthetic-monitor/) / [UDP](/integrations/web-services/synthetic/synthetic-monitors-new/udp-synthetic-monitor/) | Monitor the response time taken to connect to a port of TCP/UDP server. |
| [SCRIPT – HTTP Synthetic Transaction](/integrations/web-services/synthetic/synthetic-monitors-new/script-http-transaction/) | Monitor user experience, performance and availability issues during any website transaction running on a web browser. |