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Monitor server performance from all angles using cloud-based website monitoring

With SolarWinds^® Observability SaaS, monitor web application availability and performance in real-time. For optimal end-user performance, SolarWinds Observability SaaS allows you to monitor all critical website performance metrics, down to the individual webpage. To help ensure your website is running quickly and smoothly, alerts and data visualization provide a granular view into your web performance. In addition, SolarWinds Observability SaaS is an integrated, full-stack solution built to connect data from users, applications, services, databases, networks, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, including Kubernetes, AWS and Azure, to deliver holistic business insights, and operational intelligence to troubleshoot server-end issues quickly

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See your most important website performance metrics in real-time

To ensure your web application is reachable, available and performant from anywhere, all the time, you need dependable performance monitoring—down to the individual webpage. From uptime monitoring to page speed, load time and more, SolarWinds Observability SaaS monitors and reports on all critical website metrics.

To help prevent user experience problems, SolarWinds Observability SaaS utilizes global proactive monitoring locations preemptively and continuously test and monitor, website reachability, availability and performance. When an issue is identified during a test, an immediate alert is sent to your inbox, so you can ensure rapid remediation and help prevent impact to actual end users.

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View performance summaries and historical data to optimize website development

When you’re responsible for web application performance, real-time metrics aren’t your only concern. An effective team will also take into account long-term performance, with an eye on how your website is helping deliver your business outcomes. To understand a website’s business benefits in the long term, SolarWinds Observability SaaS offers many performance insights including detailed drill downs and summaries. Correlating user experience and application performance data means you can understand and communicate your website performance impact on the business.

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Unified website performance monitoring with full-stack application performance management

SolarWinds Observability SaaS is a unified, full-stack observability solution built to connect data from end-user experience, web applications, their services, infrastructure, cloud services, databases, and networks to deliver holistic business insights. A unified observability solution means you are able to identify end user experience problems, then dive into the relevant application transactions, and understand what a transactions are involved with the issue. With combined website monitoring and application performance management, you can troubleshoot more accurately and efficiently.

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Access client-side website metrics along with server-side application performance management from a unified control center

Managing website and application performance from a unified solution simplifies operations. From a single pane of glass, you can monitor end-user experience data, application server data, and infrastructure health. Gain an end user’s perspective on website performance issues in combination with server-side application performance data, for more complete and powerful troubleshooting.

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Do you find yourself asking…

What is website monitoring?
How can website monitoring improve user experience?
How do you choose the right website monitoring tool?
Can you use both application performance monitoring and website monitoring?

Website monitoring, or website performance monitoring, refers to tracking elements determining how the website functions, specifically from the end-user experience. That might include monitoring web services and metrics to identify downtime and end-user issues. Monitoring can also include specific server insights relevant to website performance.

Selecting the appropriate website monitoring tools involves assessing features that fulfill technical requirements, ensure reliability, and promote team collaboration. The best tools go beyond basic uptime robot checks, delivering comprehensive, actionable insights for engineers.

Some important features to consider in a monitoring service include:

Comprehensive Visibility and Advanced Troubleshooting: The tool should provide synthetic monitoring and RUM within a unified dashboard. This enables real-time insights into both simulated and real user experiences, which is vital for effective troubleshooting. Seek solutions that provide detailed object-level data and alerts to quickly identify the root of any issue.
Robust Incident Management and Collaboration: Outages demand coordinated responses. Leading tools include features that optimize incident management:

Ability to configure notifications for multiple team members or teams based on alert type and urgency
Integration with communication tools (such as Slack) and IT solution management mechanisms via webhooks and built-in plugins for centralized alerting
Detailed monitor access controls and role-based permissions so the right team members can manage alerts and review performance data
Options for scheduled reporting to keep IT leaders updated on service level objectives using global performance data and metrics

Efficiency Through Automation: Choose tools that support automation instead of alerts only, including:

Setting up automated workflows triggered by monitoring events (such as restarting services or initiating failovers)
Automating initial diagnostics to quickly identify the root cause of issues
Leveraging API access to integrate monitoring data with your existing business and IT infrastructure

Provider Reliability: Review user feedback and case studies to learn why organizations choose certain providers. Reliability is critical—your monitoring provider should never contribute to downtime. Assess their service level agreements and monitor their public status pages. Additionally, look for solutions that can monitor essential infrastructure, such as content delivery networks.

When comparing pricing, ensure the plan scales with your requirements and provides transparent costs for vital features such as transaction testing.

Definitely; in today's IT landscape, combining application performance monitoring (APM) with dedicated website monitoring tools is essential for full, end-to-end visibility across the entire web of dependencies. These two monitoring solutions work together, each covering important yet distinct aspects of the service delivery process.

Website monitoring—particularly synthetic website monitoring and RUM—reveals what users are experiencing, such as "The login page is slow." In contrast, APM investigates the back end to uncover why issues occur, such as "A specific database query in the web app is causing high latency."

Integration for Fast Root Cause Discovery

The greatest benefit comes from integrating these tools, allowing engineers to track an issue from the user's browser, through the load balancer, across application servers, and down to the exact line of code or infrastructure element.

Transaction monitoring that connects synthetic or real user journey data with related code traces in APM is essential
This unified data set significantly lowers Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) by speeding up root cause detection

Automation in Unified Monitoring

Automation is vital for making the most of both toolsets. By establishing automated workflows that link data between APM and website monitoring, you can:

Automatically Enhance External Alerts With Internal Data: If a synthetic check on an endpoint fails, the system instantly pulls relevant server monitoring information from APM, giving on-call engineers immediate context
Leverage the APIs of Both Platforms to Build a Unified Dashboard: This dashboard displays the performance health of the entire stack—from Microsoft Azure services to custom web app code—offering a comprehensive view of the web of dependencies

Website monitoring, or website performance monitoring, refers to tracking elements determining how the website functions, specifically from the end-user experience. That might include monitoring web services and metrics to identify downtime and end-user issues. Monitoring can also include specific server insights relevant to website performance.
Monitoring your website is essential for delivering an excellent digital experience to your users. By consistently observing performance, availability, and functionality, IT leaders and engineers can detect and address problems before they affect business operations or customer satisfaction.

An optimal user experience is achieved by combining various monitoring approaches, resulting in comprehensive website monitoring:

Synthetic Monitoring (Synthetic Testing): This method scripts virtual user actions (such as logging in, submitting forms, or completing checkouts) and executes them from different geographic locations, browser types, and device setups around the globe. This enables early, consistent analysis of baseline performance and availability, allowing you to monitor important transaction metrics and website uptime without depending on real user activity. Synthetic monitoring can check infrastructure elements such as DNS and SSL certificate status.

Real User Monitoring (RUM): This captures information from real users as they navigate your website. RUM gives detailed insights into exact response times and page load statistics, showing how performance truly affects your audience. It provides a firsthand view of the digital experience across different user groups, revealing issues in the user's final connection that synthetic tests may overlook. RUM data is vital for monitoring user-focused metrics such as Core Web Vitals and overall website speed.

Automation for Instant Remediation

This process's effectiveness depends greatly on automation. Sophisticated monitoring solutions enable you to automate the identification of performance issues, sending instant alerts through notifications and webhooks whenever thresholds are exceeded. This feature ensures performance outages or slowdowns are addressed immediately, reducing their impact on the user experience and safeguarding your SEO ranking.
Selecting the appropriate website monitoring tools involves assessing features that fulfill technical requirements, ensure reliability, and promote team collaboration. The best tools go beyond basic uptime robot checks, delivering comprehensive, actionable insights for engineers.

Some important features to consider in a monitoring service include:

Comprehensive Visibility and Advanced Troubleshooting: The tool should provide synthetic monitoring and RUM within a unified dashboard. This enables real-time insights into both simulated and real user experiences, which is vital for effective troubleshooting. Seek solutions that provide detailed object-level data and alerts to quickly identify the root of any issue.

Robust Incident Management and Collaboration: Outages demand coordinated responses. Leading tools include features that optimize incident management:

Ability to configure notifications for multiple team members or teams based on alert type and urgency

Integration with communication tools (such as Slack) and IT solution management mechanisms via webhooks and built-in plugins for centralized alerting

Detailed monitor access controls and role-based permissions so the right team members can manage alerts and review performance data

Options for scheduled reporting to keep IT leaders updated on service level objectives using global performance data and metrics

Efficiency Through Automation: Choose tools that support automation instead of alerts only, including:

Setting up automated workflows triggered by monitoring events (such as restarting services or initiating failovers)

Automating initial diagnostics to quickly identify the root cause of issues

Leveraging API access to integrate monitoring data with your existing business and IT infrastructure

Provider Reliability: Review user feedback and case studies to learn why organizations choose certain providers. Reliability is critical—your monitoring provider should never contribute to downtime. Assess their service level agreements and monitor their public status pages. Additionally, look for solutions that can monitor essential infrastructure, such as content delivery networks.

When comparing pricing, ensure the plan scales with your requirements and provides transparent costs for vital features such as transaction testing.
Definitely; in today's IT landscape, combining application performance monitoring (APM) with dedicated website monitoring tools is essential for full, end-to-end visibility across the entire web of dependencies. These two monitoring solutions work together, each covering important yet distinct aspects of the service delivery process.

Website monitoring—particularly synthetic website monitoring and RUM—reveals what users are experiencing, such as "The login page is slow." In contrast, APM investigates the back end to uncover why issues occur, such as "A specific database query in the web app is causing high latency."

Integration for Fast Root Cause Discovery

The greatest benefit comes from integrating these tools, allowing engineers to track an issue from the user's browser, through the load balancer, across application servers, and down to the exact line of code or infrastructure element.

Transaction monitoring that connects synthetic or real user journey data with related code traces in APM is essential

This unified data set significantly lowers Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) by speeding up root cause detection

Automation in Unified Monitoring

Automation is vital for making the most of both toolsets. By establishing automated workflows that link data between APM and website monitoring, you can:

Automatically Enhance External Alerts With Internal Data: If a synthetic check on an endpoint fails, the system instantly pulls relevant server monitoring information from APM, giving on-call engineers immediate context

Leverage the APIs of Both Platforms to Build a Unified Dashboard: This dashboard displays the performance health of the entire stack—from Microsoft Azure services to custom web app code—offering a comprehensive view of the web of dependencies

Maximize observability with website performance monitoring

Track server performance and web application uptime instantly in both cloud and hybrid settings.
Access your key website performance metrics immediately with global, proactive monitoring locations, ensuring reliable, uninterrupted coverage.
Access performance overviews and past data in one platform to enhance development and demonstrate effects on business results.

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