synthetic-monitoring SKILL.md skillA
synthetic-monitoring from petrkindlmann/qa-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add petrkindlmann/qa-skills/synthetic-monitoring@v2.0Pins v2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- petrkindlmann/qa-skills
- Path
skills/synthetic-monitoring/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v2.0, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 21, 2026
- Size
- 24,213 bytes
- Repository stars
- 245
- License
- MIT
Scheduled probes that run CONTINUOUSLY after release. Covers probe design for critical user journeys, alerting integration, SLA validation, multi-region monitoring, and the boundary between QA and SRE. Use when: "synthetic monitoring," "uptime testing," "scheduled probes," "SLA validation," "availability monitoring," "post-deploy checks." Not for: safe-release techniques during rollout — use testing-in-production. Not for: designing tests from prod telemetry — use observability-driven-testing.…
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What the file says
<objective> Synthetic monitoring runs scripted tests against production on a schedule, 24/7. It catches outages, performance degradation, and broken flows before real users report them — at 3 AM when traffic is zero, probes are the only thing checking your app works. A login page that always returns 200 but never authenticates passes a naive uptime check; a synthetic probe that asserts the dashboard loads catches it. This skill covers probe design, alerting integration, SLA validation, multi-region execution, and the runbook discipline that keeps a 3 AM page actionable. </objective> ## Quick Route | Situation | Go to | |-----------|-------| | Picking a platform (Checkly, Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch…) | Platform Options | | Writing a probe (login, API health, search) | Probe Design → `references/probe-implementations.md` | | Probe runs but users still report outages | Failure Modes | | Alerts too noisy or missing real outages | Alerting Integration | | Calculating downtime budget for an SLA | SLA Validation | | Probe failed at 3 AM and on-call is lost | runbook template in `references/platforms-and-ci.md` | --- ## Discovery Questions …
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How to install
mdr add petrkindlmann/qa-skills/synthetic-monitoring@sha256:bc7497964efed8b6The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 21, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 38 days.
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| v2.0 latest | 2026-10-21 | 98cd8d2 | 24,213 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0 | 2026-06-10 | 5e772b2 | 23,130 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0 | 2026-06-10 | bcd1201 | 22,866 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-05-30 | d9b4edd | 16,818 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-05-21 | c7fb325 | 20,979 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
petrkindlmann/qa-skills · 245 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bkvx64kwk7xtfzku GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=petrkindlmann/qa-skills/synthetic-monitoring GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bc7497964efed8b6696d9e0dbed805acc9bb1c38c563d384aa06c005bc5da50b
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