A browser monitor simulates a user visiting your application using a modern, updated web browser to monitor your application's business-critical workflows. Browser monitors can be configured to run from any Dynatrace public or private locations at frequencies of up to every five minutes and sends alerts when the application becomes inaccessible or when performance degrades significantly. In addition, they can be used to check the availability of internal resources that are inaccessible from outside your network.
The Dynatrace recorder is used to capture an exact sequence of clicks and user inputs, availability, and performance. Alternatively, a defined sequence can be scripted to accomplish the same goal.
The unit of measure for browser monitors is a synthetic action. A synthetic action is an interaction with a synthetic browser that triggers a web request that includes a page load, navigation event, or action that triggers an XHR or Fetch request performed during private and public executions of Synthetic Browser Monitors.
The following interactions are not counted:
A synthetic action is charged as soon as the action is made, no matter if it is successful or fails. If an action fails and therefore subsequent actions are not executed, these subsequent actions are not charged.
This section describes the different Dynatrace tools that you can use to track consumption and costs.
The following calculation gives you an estimate of the maximum possible consumption, assuming that all Synthetic actions were executed. Actual consumption may vary depending on if some actions failed subsequent actions were not executed.
# Synthetic actions consumed per monitor = (# Synthetic actions included in monitor) × (# Executions per hour) × (# Locations) × # Hours
Dynatrace provides built-in usage metrics that help you understand and analyze your organization's consumption of Browser Monitor and Clickpath.
For details about the respective monitoring-consumption metrics, see Built-in Real User Monitoring metrics.
You can also track your usage in Account Management. Go to Account Management > Subscription > Overview > Cost and usage details > Usage summary and select the Browser Monitor and Clickpath capability.
You can query metrics via the Environment API - Metrics API v2.