Awhile back I attended an Elastic Synthetics webinar, they said that Elastic Synthetics is a clear replacement to other tools like Cisco Thousand Eyes.
After exploring more of Elastic Synthetics, it appears it mainly focuses on the application layer and doesn't delve as deeply into underlying network infrastructure.
I think my question is this tool meant more for application developers? I would expect that a tool like Elastic Synthetics would also provide network analysis/monitoring like other "Synthetics" tools.
Hi @erikg, thanks for your interest in Synthetics!
It is true that Elastic's Synthetics product offers a lot of in-depth analysis for website performance tracking.
In addition to that, we also support HTML/TCP/ICMP "lightweight" pings that will provide detailed event-level metrics for each of those. If monitoring outside the application layer is your interest, TCP/ICMP might be of interest to you.
If we can answer any further questions about the product or its capabilities please feel free to ask here.
Hello @jkambic , thanks for your response.
Yes, I feel like synthetics product is limited within its ICMP/TCP functionality.
ICMP would be able to determine the reachability of an endpoint or host.
The issue I have noticed is that it doesn't provide as much valuable insight especially when attempting to measure the performance of a network based of ICMP monitor. Its currently missing information like packet stats. Take Grafana for example: Ping check | Grafana Cloud documentation
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