Service Health
Synthetic Checks That Tell the Truth
Craft probes that catch real user pain without crying wolf every night.
3 weeks · 12h · Self-paced · BRL 1.180 (informational)
Program narrative
Balance probe coverage, auth flows, and regional variance so synthetics complement—not fight—your SLOs.
What ships inside
- Probe budget planner
- Auth session handling patterns
- Regional variance matrix
- Canary vs synthetic decision tree
- Flake triage checklist
- Dashboard pairing for synthetics
- Runbook snippet library
Outcomes we expect you to demo
- Reduce false positives by half in a pilot path
- Document probe ownership and rotation
- Pair synthetics with SLI definitions
Mentor on point
Otávio Mendes
Observability mentor focused on customer-visible signals.
FAQ — including what we skip
Labs use portable check definitions; you map to your provider.
Experience notes
“Canary vs synthetic tree ended our weekly debate about which alert to trust.”
— André · SRE · Payments edge team · 5/5 · Trustpilot
“Short, punchy labs—done in three evenings.”
— Juliana