Goal of this blog post
This blog explains how to enable and use the “Screenshots” features of SAP Cloud ALM Synthetic User Monitoring.
Introduction
Synthetic User Monitoring (SUM) is a monitoring application/technology of SAP Cloud ALM for Operations that allows you to monitor the performance and availability of a production web application from a client-side perspective.
SUM provides the ability to capture execution screenshots: For each execution of a SUM scenario, you can save screenshots to capture the results of your scenarios executions.
Multiple options can be selected to control the production of the screenshots.
- Automatic: You can generate a screenshot for each execution of the steps of your scenario or generate a screenshot only when errors occur during script execution.
- Explicit: You can also instrument your side script to generate a screenshot for a particular step of your scenario with the @sap.sum.screenshot annotation.
How to use screenshots with Synthetic User Monitoring
Step 1: Configuration
From the SUM application of your SAP Cloud ALM tenant, navigate to the “Scenario” section of the “Configuration” tab.
- Select your scenario.
- Open the “Scenario Details” to navigate to the “Selenium” tab.
Step 2: Set the Screenshots option.
Depending on your requirements, you can choose the automatic or the explicit setup, according to the following rules:
- Automatic screenshots are captured at the end of each step.
- Automatic on error only screenshots are captured at the end of each step on error or at the end of each command in error.
Step 3: Validate the housekeeping options
From the Configuration section, go to the Application Configuration
- Set the data retention times to control the size of the disk space used to store the screenshots in your SAP Cloud ALM tenant.
Step 4: Check the results.
From the Synthetic User Monitoring Executions screen,
- Select an execution instance to inspect the results of a specific execution
You will get access to the screenshots generated from your script execution.
