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Synthetic Monitoring: Building Confidence in Distributed Systems

Monday, February 2, 2026 · 4 min read
Tangential to my main area of responsibility at GitHub, I recently worked with another engineer on a side project to create a synthetic monitoring service. It launched this week and so I thought I would share a little about what it is, and the motivation behind it. Let’s say you’ve just finished deploying a new service or spun up infrastructure in a new region. The dashboards are all green. CPU utilization looks normal.
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