Browser options

The options described here configure Heartbeat to run the synthetic monitoring test suites via Synthetic Agent on the Chromium browser. Additional shared options are defined in Common monitor options. Example configuration:

- type: browser
  id: synthetic-inline-suites
  name: Elastic website
  schedule: '@every 1m'
  source:
    inline:
      script: |-
        step("load homepage", async () => {
          await page.goto('https://www.elastic.co');
        });
        step("hover over products menu", async () => {
          await page.hover('css=[data-nav-item=products]');
        });

Contains information on how to run the synthetic test suites.

Runs the Synthetic test scripts that are defined inline in the configuration. See Synthetics syntax for more information.

This is the most convenient way to get Synthetic tests up and running, however, it becomes harder to maintain and share code as the number of test files increases. The recommended way to run Synthetic suites is to create an NPM project and start writing individual tests for all the user journeys and save them as JavaScript or TypeScript files. Once the project is created, the tests can be invoked either by Zip Url or Local directory method.

Remote zip endpoint configuration allows users to specify the location of a synthetics test project ZIP file.

Under zip_url, specify these options:

If username and password are provided, they will be sent as HTTP Basic Authentication headers to the remote zip endpoint.

Example configuration:

- type: browser
  id: todos-suites
  name: Todos Journeys
  schedule: '@every 1m'
  source:
    zip_url:
      url: "https://github.com/elastic/synthetics/archive/refs/heads/master.zip"
      folder: "examples/todos"
      username: ""
      password: ""

Local directory where the synthetic test files are located.

Example configuration:

- type: browser
  id: local-journeys
  name: Local journeys
  schedule: '@every 1m'
  source:
    local:
      path: "/path/to/synthetics/journeys"

Set this option to add user defined parameters for your scripts. This value takes arbitrary YAML that is then converted to JSON which is then passed into synthetics via the --params option. See Working with Params for more information.

Example:

- type: browser
  id: local-journeys
  name: Local journeys
  schedule: '@every 1m'
  source: # Omitted in this example for brevity
  params:
    root_url: http://example.net
    my_custom_object:
      a_key: ["a value"]

Set this option to manage the screenshots captured by the synthetics agent.

Under screenshots, specify one of these options:

Example configuration:

- type: browser
  id: local-journeys
  name: Local journeys
  schedule: '@every 1m'
  screenshots: "on"
  source:
    local:
      path: "/path/to/synthetics/journeys"

Set this option to true to enable the normally disabled chromium sandbox. Defaults to false.

Extra arguments to pass to the synthetics agent package. Takes a list of strings.