# What is the concept of requests within NAM monitors?

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/what-is-the-concept-of-requests-within-nam-monitors/49587>\
**Category:** Synthetic Monitoring\
**Tags:** network-monitoring, synthetic-monitoring\
**Created:** [January 7, 2025, 10:15am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/what-is-the-concept-of-requests-within-nam-monitors/49587 "2025-01-07T10:15:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gosia\_Murawska](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Gosia\_Murawska](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Gosia_Murawska)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 10:15am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/what-is-the-concept-of-requests-within-nam-monitors/49587/1 "2025-01-07T10:15:16Z")

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How do requests differ from steps?

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**Author:** ![Jacek\_Janowicz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/jacek_janowicz/32/38815_2.png) [@Jacek\_Janowicz](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Jacek_Janowicz)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 10:15am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/what-is-the-concept-of-requests-within-nam-monitors/49587/2 "2025-01-07T10:15:58Z")

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Steps are the concept present in all Synthetic monitors already, while the requests are a new concept introduced especially for NAM. The main difference between those two:

- Steps within NAM monitors are executed sequentially as for all synthetic tests. Failure of step n causes failure of the whole monitor, and as a result, steps n+1 and further are not executed.

- Requests within a single step are executed in parallel. Failure of a single request does not prevent Dynatrace from executing other requests.