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## Synthetic Monitor - URL Analytics

This monitor provides details related to each of the URL/web site in the Synthetic Monitor - URL.

Clicking the hyperlink in the URL table displays the URL Analytics monitor as illustrated below.

 

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 Synthetic Monitor - URL Analytics

### Default Panels

This is a display of 5 rows of 2 panels each for the  selected URL.

The topmost panel contains the URL related Information.

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| This field... | Indicates... |
| IP Address | the IP address of the URL. |
| Status | the up/down status of the site associated with the URL |
| HTTP Resp | the response code for the URL request made - for instance 200 indicates "success". |
| Alert | the alert from the URL |
| Cert Activation | details such as date of activation of the certificate |
| Cert Expiry | the certificate expiry date |
| #Connections | the number of connections |
| TLS Version | the TLS version number |
| Cipher | the cipher or encryption algorithm being used in the site |
| HTTPVer | the  version of the HTTP (hyper text transfer protocol) running on the site/server. |
| Self Sign | whether or not the certificate used by the site is self signed. ** **The signature on a self-signed certificate protects the integrity of the information within the certificate but does not guarantee the authenticity of that information. |
| Content Type | the format of the content in the site pertaining to the URL |

The 9 graphs  provide a quick view of the following:

- total time taken to connect to the URL and how it varied at various points of time for the selected duration.
- time taken to connect to the server and how it varied at various points of time for the selected duration.
- the network-round trip-time (RTT) and how it varied at various points of time for the selected duration.
- time taken for the name lookup and how it varied at various points of time for the selected duration.
- time taken for connecting to the application and how it varied at various points of time for the selected duration.
- download size and download speed and how they varied at various points of time.
- Incidents experienced by the URL at specific points of time
- Failure transaction codes if any at specific points in time.

**Note**: All time metrics are very important when it comes to network performance monitoring. The key one being Round-trip time (RTT). This is the duration in milliseconds (ms) it takes for a network request to go from a starting point to a destination and back again to the starting point. RTT is an important metric in determining the health of a connection on a local network or the larger Internet, and is commonly utilized by network administrators to diagnose the speed and reliability of network connections.