Mike Simon's Blog Posts

Mike Simon is a seasoned observability leader and Developer Evangelist at Splunk, with over 16 years of experience in IT operations. Passionate about driving best practices in observability, he has a track record of optimizing monitoring frameworks for several Fortune 500 companies. With expertise spanning AIOps, cloud-native technologies, and digital experience monitoring, Mike is dedicated to empowering organizations to achieve comprehensive observability.

Observability

6 Minute Read

How to Manage Planned Downtime the Right Way, with Synthetics

Planned downtime management ensures clean synthetic tests and meaningful signals during environment changes. Manage downtime the right way, with synthetics.

Observability

7 Minute Read

Smart Alerting for Reliable Synthetics: Tune for Signal, Not Noise

Smart alerting is the way to get reliable signals from your synthetic tests. Learn how to set up and use smart alerts for better synthetic signaling.

Observability

6 Minute Read

How To Choose the Best Synthetic Test Locations

Running all your synthetic tests from one region? Discover why location matters and how the right test regions reveal true customer experience.

Observability

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Assert Like You Mean It: How To Validate Outcomes in Synthetic Tests

Go beyond page loads. Discover how smart assertions make synthetic browser tests precise, proactive, and resilient to false positives.

Observability

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Getting Synthetics Right: A Best Practices Series for Synthetic Tests You Can Trust

Learn synthetic monitoring best practices: how to design reliable browser tests, reduce false alerts, tune thresholds, and validate user experience.

Observability

4 Minute Read

Getting Synthetics Right: How To Design Synthetic Tests with Purpose

Learn how to design synthetic browser tests that reflect real user journeys, reduce noise, and feed RUM and APM with meaningful observability signals.