topic Re: Search for a specific string on a web page in Synthetic Monitoring

Search for a specific string on a web page

terrym — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 15:57:51 GMT

We would like to be able to check for a specific text string on a website to confirm the website is up and serving the correct pages. e.g. we put a maintenance page on a webserver so the normal content was not available but obvisouly the webserver appears to be up as the webserver was serving documents albeit it a maintenance page.

If we could search for a specific text string which is normally on the web page we know the correct content is being serverd. Hope that makes sense.

Can this be done with Dynatrace please?

Re: Search for a specific string on a web page

arturo_mondelo — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:16:14 GMT

For this use case i would use a synthetic test (browser) that allow you to search for a specific content/text on a concrete page (step).

If the test is not found, an outage can be defined and you will get notified if you wish so!

Hope i understand your use case properly!

Re: Search for a specific string on a web page

terrym — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 08:19:17 GMT

Thank You Arturo. This confirms I was on the right path.