What’s new

#Introducing the Monitor permissions overview

The Summary of monitor permissions overview is now available in the User Management hub. This overview lists all your monitors and their individual operators and operator group permissions:

From the User Management hub, clicking the number of available production monitors card opens the monitor permissions overview page. Note that this feature is available to Administrators with Enterprise-level accounts.

#Introducing the API user overview

The API user overview is now available in the User Management hub. This overview lists all your operators' API information in addition to the existing individual operator’s API information in the API management tab:

From the User Management hub, clicking the View all API users button opens the new overview page, where you can view and sort the following information easily:

• Operator — the full name of the operator using the API
• Username — an alphanumeric string representing the API username
• Type — the API type or where the API was used (Generic - most common API type, Mobile App, Transaction Recorder, Grafana)
• Created — the period when the API was created
• Last Used — the period when the API was last used (minutes, days, or Never used)
• Description — a text that describes or explains what the API is used for
• Delete — a button that lets you delete a specific API user

#Introducing Clear browser cache in transaction monitors

Uptrends transaction monitors always open a browser to simulate user activities to check the performance of your website. The browser starts without cached data, and later stores cache to temporarily store website resources to speed up the loading process.

If you want to compare the behavior of your e-commerce site when loading items in the shopping cart for existing users (with cached data) compared to new visitors (without cached data), we recommend clearing the browser cache.

With the new Clear browser cache action in transaction monitors, you can now empty the browser cache to reload page elements directly from the server instead of the browser cache. This feature helps you check the website’s first-time visit performance and ensures that UI displays (such as images, text, and other front-end elements) are loaded correctly. This action doesn’t cost any transaction credits. Use this to enhance your monitoring needs. For more information, refer to the Transaction step editor.

#Custom metrics now show the minimum and maximum metric values

The Custom metrics in Multi-step API monitors (MSA) let you create custom metric variables to collect and store numerical data from an API response step.

These metric variables can be displayed through a Custom metrics chart, showing the metric’s trends over time. Before, the chart only shows the custom metric’s average value (high points) as a data point. Now, the custom metric’s minimum and maximum values are also displayed. Note that existing MSA monitors with custom metrics data from 1 November 2024 onward will be reflected in your Custom metrics chart.