Synthetic Monitoring browser timeout

[shinmaeng]

Hi, Elastic staffs.

I'm testing Synthetic monitoring tool to check my company's website uptime and performance.
I'm using your code, config and image that you support on github.

I have a question about monitoring cofiguration in heartbeat.docker.yml file.
The website that I want to check takes about 2~3s, so I set the timeout config to 1s in heartbeat monitors in the yaml file like below.

- type: browser
  id: my-monitor
  name: My Monitor
  schedule: "@every 1m"
  script: |-
    step("load homepage", async () => {
        await page.goto('https://elastic.com');
    });
  **timeout: 1s**

I expected that the status of the website mornitoring got fail, but it got suceess nevertheless the duration time is over the timeout that I set 1sec.

How can I set the timeout configuration of browser monitoring in Synthetic.

Thank you in advance.

[PaulB-Elastic]

Hi @shinmaeng, the timeout parameter is only used by the ping type of monitors, not for synthetics.

You can set the timeout for your page load as a parameter to the goto method, for example:

await page.goto('https://elastic.com', { timeout:1000 });

This sets the timeout in milliseconds.

We do have an open issue to make this an option at the UJ/step level too, which will add more flexibility in the future: Configurable timeouts (UJ and Step Level) · Issue #133 · elastic/synthetics · GitHub