# About the Synthetics category

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-synthetics-category/167978>\
**Category:** Synthetics\
**Created:** [February 12, 2019, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-synthetics-category/167978 "2019-02-12T08:00:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-synthetics-category/167978/1 "2019-02-12T08:00:27Z")

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## Free and Open uptime monitoring

React to availability issues across your apps and services before they affect users. Formerly known as Uptime.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-synthetics-category/167978/5 "2019-03-27T21:25:39Z")

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