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Synthetics use case library 🔗

The following use cases feature examples from Buttercup Industries, a fictitious e-commerce company. Kai, a site reliability engineer at the Buttercup e-commerce company, shares the stories of how they use Splunk Synthetics and Splunk Observability Cloud to monitor and take action on their applications and services.

Test type

Use case

Browser test

Monitor a multi-step workflow

API test

Monitor API performance for a critical workflow

Uptime test

Monitor the performance of a user-facing application