Synthetic transactions - converting From OneSight to Zabbix

Question

We are currently in the process of converting our monitoring solution from OneSight to Zabbix. We have Zabbix up and running and monitoring our hardware, perf counters and software errors. We use OneSight for synthetic transactions which involve a large amount of HTTP POSTs, expression matching and multiple points of origin. Zabbix' built in web checks will be far too labor intensive for us to get going.

Which, if any, synthetic transaction solutions will integrate with or work well with Zabbix?

We are starting to look at Gomez, Dotcom-Monitor, and keeping OneSight but only for synthetics. Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Have you looked at AlertFox and Browsermob yet? IMHO these two are the best when it comes to synthetic transaction monitoring. You can script complex transactions easily and the pricing is reasonable. Both can be integrated as external check with Zabbix, Nagios etc.

Answer 2

If you want free / open source tools, you should check the SeleniumIDE and Jmeter software.

At work, we use JMeter (http://jmeter.apache.org/)for load and custom tests.

I believe the Selenium IDE(http://seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/) should do the trick, too.

They are most complete open source tools for Web Monitoring, and you can use zabbix_sender to send results to Zabbix.