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content/en/s4r/8-synthetics/2-synthetics-detail.md

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By default, Splunk Synthetics provides screenshots and video capture of the test. This is useful for debugging issues. You can see, for example, the slow loading of large images, the slow rendering of a page etc.
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{{% notice title="Info" style="info" %}}
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The screenshot below doesn't contain a red banner with an error in it however you might be seeing one in your run results. This is expected as in some cases the test run fails.
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{{% /notice %}}
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{{% notice title="Exercise" style="green" icon="running" %}}
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* Change the duration above the film strip from **Every 1s** to **Every 500ms**. This will rebuild the filmstrip to see in more detail how the page is rendered. Use your mouse to scroll left and right through the filmstrip.
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* Use your mouse to scroll left and right through the filmstrip to see how the site was being rendered during the test run.
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* In the Video pane, press on the play button **** to see the test playback. If you click the ellipses **** you can change the *playback speed*, view it *Picture in Picture* and even *Download* the video.
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* In the Synthetic Transaction pane, click on the first Business Transaction **Home**
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* The waterfall below will show all the objects that make up the page. The first line is the HTML page itself. The next lines are the objects that make up the page (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Images, Fonts, etc.).

content/en/s4r/8-synthetics/4-synthetics-detector.md

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![synth detector](../images/synth-detector.png)
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* First, click on the pencil to rename the detector to something meaningful like [YOUR INITIALS - WORKSHOP Detector].
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* Ensure that Run Duration and static threshold are selected.
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* Set trigger threshold to be around 68000. Make sure the threshold line is cutting through the long spikes as shown above. (You may have to adjust the threshold value a bit to match your actual latency.)
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UPDATE SCREENSHOT
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* Edit the text **New Synthetics Detector** (**1**) and replace it with `INITIALS -` [WORKSHOPNAME]`.
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* Ensure that {{% button %}}Run duration{{% /button %}} and {{% button %}}Static threshold{{% /button %}} are selected.
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* Set the **Trigger threshold** (**2**) to be around `65,000` to `68,000`. Make sure you have more than one spike cutting through the threshold line as shown above (you may have to adjust the threshold value a bit to match your actual latency).
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* Leave the rest as default.
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* Note that there is now a row of red and white triangles appearing below the spikes. The red triangles let you know that your detector found that your test was above the given threshold & the white triangle indicates that the result returned below the threshold. Each red triangle will trigger an alert.
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* You can change the Alerts criticality by changing the drop-down to a different setting, as well as the method of alerting. Make sure you do **NOT** Add a Recipient. (This will help your Instructor with cleaning up the workshop afterward).
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* If you are interested in the analytics used for this detector you can click the ellipses **** at the top right of the dialog. This will show you the generated analytics.
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* Click Activate to deploy your detector
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* This returns you to the Synthetic home page, to see if your test is active click on {{% button style="white" %}}Edit Test{{% /button %}} button
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* At the bottom of the page, there is a list of active detectors, including the one you just created.
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* Note that there is now a row of red and white triangles appearing below the spikes(**3**). The red triangles let you know that your detector found that your test was above the given threshold & the white triangle indicates that the result returned below the threshold. Each red triangle will trigger an alert.
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* You can change the Alerts criticality (**4**) by changing the drop-down to a different level, as well as the method of alerting. Make sure you do **NOT** add a Recipient as this could lead to you being subjected to an alert storm!
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* Click {{% button style="blue" %}}Activate{{% /button %}} to deploy your detector.
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* To see your new created detector click {{% button style="white" %}}Edit Test{{% /button %}} button
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* At the bottom of the page is a list of active detectors.
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![list of detectors](../images/detector-list.png)
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