This December, a few top demands make it to the synthetics product area, amongst others: 

• App Agents get the traceroute and ping data back-ported from the legacy Private Agents
• BGP Monitor tests are made easier to navigate by allowing you to switch between the prefixes being monitored
• All existing Notification Channels are now available to synthetic tests

Ping and trace in page load tests

You are now able to run ping and traceroute on the App Agents. As a first step in the rollout, we have enabled UI changes to be able to run this as part of the Page Load test (the only test that uses the App Agents today).

BGP Monitor aggregated prefixes and prefix selector filter

Based on feedback from certain customers we realized that the BGP test results were noisy and it was hard to get a high level view of the number of changes and prefixes involved before digging into the details. We have made three changes to address this:

• We are aggregating the result set by prefix and grouping them into collapsed groups.
• The header for each group indicates the total number of BGP events grouped by type (Announcements, Withdrawals and Unexpected Origin events).
• A prefix selector on the top right allows users to easily filter down to a specific prefix and doing so only shows events for that specific prefix over the selected time range.

Support for all notification channel types in Synthetics

When we added support for alerts and notifications in Synthetics about a year ago, we supported Slack, email and JSON/webhook. We did the work necessary to support and template all the other notification types and have exposed them in the UI.