topic Even distribution of HTTP monitor executions in Synthetic Monitoring

Even distribution of HTTP monitor executions

saurav_gayawar — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:57:17 GMT

Hi All,

I have created a HTTP Synthetic monitor and selected the frequency as 5 minutes for 7 different locations.

On running the test, for the first minute of the each iteration the test on 3 locations are executed, on second minute of each iteration the test on other 2 locations are executed and on the third minute of the each iteration the test on the last 3 locations are executed.

Now for every iteration the test completes in the very first 3 minutes and for rest of the 2 minutes we do not record any thing, mean while if any issue happens during this time we will have delay of 2 minutes.

So is there a way by which we can evenly distribute the test run for the selected frequency so at least we have one test run every minute.

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

HannahM — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:39:29 GMT

Hi Saurav,

thanks for your question. Even distribution of HTTP monitor executions is not yet available. We are currently working on this.
Best wishes, Hannah

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

saurav_gayawar — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 04:47:14 GMT

Hi Yos N.

Having 5 location in 5 minute did not work. Thanks for help.

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

saurav_gayawar — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 04:52:09 GMT

Hi Hannah,

Thanks for reply, how early can we expect this feature in Dynatrace, it there an ETA for this feature.

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

HannahM — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 07:57:55 GMT

Yes, it's expected quite soon but this is contingent on testing. We are expecting it in the next month or so.

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

AntonioSousa — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:27:21 GMT

Hi Hannah,

This is very welcome! I have noticed this problem with distribution also. Will this also be available for private locations?

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

HannahM — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:23:03 GMT

Do you mean for Private Browser Monitors? These should already show even spacing - since 1.180.

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

AntonioSousa — Fri, 01 May 2020 09:29:33 GMT

Yes, you are correct, and I hadn't noticed it. Checked some and they seem very nicely distributed. Thanks!

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

AntonioSousa — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:16:57 GMT

Hi Hannah,

I have noticed today that HTTP Monitors are still not evenly distributed. Do you have an idea when it will be available?

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

HannahM — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:02:01 GMT

Good question. I see that the HTTP monitor executions on public locations are spread evenly but this is not yet the case for those on private locations. I will check and add an update here

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

HannahM — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:38:11 GMT

Hi Antonio, thanks for your patience. I checked with my colleagues in Development and confirmed that this is still being worked on. We don't yet have a date for this.

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

AntonioSousa — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 21:05:55 GMT

Is there some workaround for this? Like start/stopping the services at an exact differentiated time?

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

HannahM — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 07:41:44 GMT

Unfortunately not. However, it seems there will be an intermediate change to evenly space executions on private locations for HTTP monitors that will be available sooner. This will be what you are looking for for monitors that just run on private locations but those with a mix of public and private will still see this behaviour. I also couldn't get a date but this will be sooner rather than later.

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

irakli_natsvlis — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:44:08 GMT

Hello Hannah,

Could you tell if now private synthetic monitors distribute traffic evenly?

Thanks

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

AntonioSousa — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:49:23 GMT

Hi Irakli,

For browser monitors, it has been working long ago.

For HTTP monitors, it's still now working in my case, but I don't have the latest versions.

@Hannah M. will certainly confirm soon.

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

HannahM — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:57:28 GMT

It looks like most of the work has been completed for this.

Re: Http Monitors, evenly distribute the test run within single iteration for selected frequency.

HannahM — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 14:24:29 GMT

Thank you for your patience. We have started to roll this out so it should be in all clusters over the next few releases. Best wishes, Hannah