CA App Synthetic Monitor Basic Monitor
CA App Synthetic Monitor provides essential capabilities for ensuring application performance and availability, enabling proactive issue detection for your business operations.
- Proactive Monitoring: Access continuous, automated checks of critical application functions to identify issues before users are impacted.
- Performance Insights: Coverage for detailed performance metrics, allowing IT teams to pinpoint bottlenecks and optimize user experience.
- Availability Assurance: Protection against unexpected downtime by providing early warnings of application failures or degradation.
- Licensing Compliance: Entitlement to use the software as licensed, ensuring adherence to vendor terms and avoiding compliance risks.
Product Overview
Product Overview
CA App Synthetic Monitor is a platform licensing solution from CA Technologies designed to provide essential monitoring capabilities for business-critical applications. This license enables basic, 10-minute interval monitoring of application availability and performance, ensuring that key user journeys are functioning as expected.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market companies who need to maintain the operational integrity of their internal or customer-facing applications. It fits into an existing IT infrastructure, providing a layer of proactive oversight without requiring extensive hardware or complex deployment.
- Automated Application Testing: Schedule and run tests that simulate real user interactions with your applications.
- Performance Baseline: Establish performance benchmarks to quickly identify deviations and potential issues.
- Alerting and Notification: Configure alerts to notify relevant personnel when monitoring thresholds are breached.
- Basic Availability Checks: Ensure core application functions are accessible and responsive.
- Subscription-Based Licensing: Provides access to the software on a recurring basis, simplifying budget management.
This essential monitoring tool empowers SMB and mid-market teams to maintain application health and user satisfaction with straightforward, subscription-based licensing.
What This Enables
Enable proactive application availability monitoring
Enable teams to continuously test critical application functions at regular intervals, ensuring that core services are accessible. Streamline the process of identifying application failures or performance degradations before they affect end-users.
cloud-hosted applications, on-premises servers, SaaS platforms, internal business tools
Automate user journey performance checks
Streamline the validation of key user workflows within applications, ensuring a smooth and efficient experience. Automate the measurement of response times and transaction success rates across essential business processes.
web applications, internal portals, customer-facing websites, business process automation
Gain visibility into application performance metrics
Enable IT professionals to establish performance baselines and identify deviations that could indicate underlying issues. Automate the collection of data points necessary for performance tuning and capacity planning.
distributed IT environments, multi-tier applications, critical business systems, performance troubleshooting
Key Features
10-minute basic monitoring intervals
Provides frequent checks of application availability and performance, reducing the window of potential downtime and user impact.
Automated synthetic transaction testing
Simulates real user interactions to proactively identify issues within critical application workflows before users encounter them.
Performance metric collection
Offers insights into application response times and transaction success rates, aiding in performance optimization and troubleshooting.
Subscription-based licensing
Provides predictable costs and ongoing access to the monitoring platform, simplifying budget management for SMB and mid-market IT.
Alerting and notification system
Notifies relevant IT personnel immediately when monitoring thresholds are breached, enabling rapid response to potential problems.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial services firms rely on constant application availability for trading, customer service, and internal operations, making proactive monitoring essential for regulatory compliance and business continuity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers depend on secure and accessible patient portals, electronic health records, and diagnostic systems, where downtime can have critical consequences for patient care.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses require always-on e-commerce platforms, booking systems, and point-of-sale applications to drive revenue and maintain customer satisfaction.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers utilize applications for production management, supply chain logistics, and operational control, where system interruptions can halt production and impact delivery schedules.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is CA App Synthetic Monitor?
CA App Synthetic Monitor is a software solution that allows businesses to proactively monitor the availability and performance of their applications. It simulates user activity to detect issues before they impact end-users.
What does the '10 Minute Basic Monitor' license include?
This specific license provides basic monitoring capabilities with checks performed every 10 minutes. It focuses on ensuring core application availability and performance for essential business functions.
Who is this product intended for?
This product is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in small to mid-sized businesses who need to ensure their critical applications are running smoothly and are accessible to their users.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.