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Workflow overview
Reference · liveworkflow:synthetic-monitoring-maintenance
Synthetic Monitoring Maintenance overview
Maintains and evolves the suite of synthetic monitors (canary tests, uptime checks, transaction monitors) — reviewing which critical user journeys are covered, updating selectors and API contracts broken by recent deploys, tuning alert thresholds to reduce false-positive noise, rotating test credentials, validating multi-region probe distribution, and retiring monitors for deprecated features. Produces a synthetic-monitor inventory with coverage and health status. Excludes production incident response.
Attributes
displayName
Synthetic Monitoring Maintenance
workflowKind
operational
triggerType
scheduled
typicalCadence
monthly
complexity
single-team
description
Maintains and evolves the suite of synthetic monitors (canary tests, uptime
checks, transaction monitors) — reviewing which critical user journeys are
covered, updating selectors and API contracts broken by recent deploys,
tuning alert thresholds to reduce false-positive noise, rotating test
credentials, validating multi-region probe distribution, and retiring
monitors for deprecated features. Produces a synthetic-monitor inventory
with coverage and health status. Excludes production incident response.
Outgoing edges
applies_to_domain2
- domain:observability·DomainObservability
- domain:web-development·DomainWeb Development
involves_role3
- role:sre-lead·RoleSRE Lead
- role:test-writer·RoleTest Writer
- role:devops-engineer·RoleDevOps Engineer
performed_by_org_unit2
- org-unit:infra-engineering·OrgUnitInfrastructure Engineering
- org-unit:quality-engineering·OrgUnitQuality Engineering
requires_skill_area2
- skill-area:observability-pipeline·SkillAreaObservability Pipeline
- skill-area:sli-slo-management·SkillAreaSLI / SLO Management
triggers_responsibility2
- responsibility:slo-definition·ResponsibilitySLO definition
- responsibility:flaky-test-quarantine·ResponsibilityFlaky test quarantine
Incoming edges
None.