PerfAgents

PerfAgents is a visionary, AI-driven synthetic monitoring platform that revolutionizes how businesses ensure the performance and reliability of their digital applications. It provides a unified solution for QA and DevOps teams to combine testing and monitoring into a single, streamlined workflow. By leveraging existing web automation scripts and introducing AI-powered script creation, PerfAgents significantly reduces setup time, lowers costs, and empowers teams to proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact users.

The platform is built for the modern web, moving away from proprietary recorders and embracing the power of open-source frameworks. This approach allows teams to repurpose their existing regression suites for continuous monitoring, ensuring a seamless transition and maximizing the return on their testing investments. With a focus on democratizing synthetic monitoring, PerfAgents offers a flexible, cost-effective, and powerful tool to prevent downtime, optimize user experience, and protect revenue.

How to use PerfAgents

Getting started with PerfAgents is a straightforward process designed for efficiency:

1. Sign Up & Integrate: Begin with a free trial to explore the platform. You can immediately integrate your existing test scripts from GitHub, upload them directly, or start fresh.
2. Create Monitoring Scripts: Leverage the platform's flexibility. Use your existing scripts written in Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, or Cypress. Alternatively, use the innovative AI-powered feature to generate new monitoring scripts simply by describing the user flow in plain English within the PerfAgents IDE.
3. Configure Monitors: Set up your monitoring jobs. Define the frequency of checks and select from multiple worldwide locations to simulate global user access and ensure optimal performance across all regions.
4. Set Up Alerts: Integrate PerfAgents with your team's communication and incident management tools. Receive real-time alerts via Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, PagerDuty, and more, ensuring prompt notification when SLAs are breached.
5. Analyze & Optimize: Use the forensic analysis feature to gain deep insights into application performance. Analyze detailed reports, waterfalls, and error logs to quickly diagnose and resolve downtime or response time issues.

Core Features of PerfAgents

• AI-Powered Script Creation: Automatically generate monitoring scripts from natural language prompts (plain English), eliminating the need for manual coding or custom recorders.
• Versatile Framework Support: Seamlessly use your existing test scripts written in popular open-source frameworks, including Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, and Cypress.
• Continuous Testing & Monitoring: Unify your testing and monitoring efforts. Run regression tests continuously as synthetic monitors to catch issues early in development and in production.
• Comprehensive Monitoring Types: Go beyond basic checks with Website Monitoring, REST API Endpoint Monitoring, and complex multi-step Sequence Monitoring to simulate full user journeys.
• Global Monitoring Locations: Monitor your application's availability and response time from various locations around the world to ensure a consistent experience for all users.
• Forensic Analysis: Get detailed, actionable insights into performance bottlenecks with comprehensive reports, helping you to quickly identify the root cause of failures.
• Seamless Integrations: Connect with essential DevOps and communication tools like GitHub, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, and PagerDuty for a streamlined workflow.

Use Cases for PerfAgents

PerfAgents is versatile and valuable for various roles and scenarios:

• DevOps & SRE Teams: Proactively monitor critical customer-facing applications 24/7 to prevent outages, minimize downtime, and ensure service level objectives (SLOs) are met.
• QA Teams: Repurpose existing functional and regression test suites for continuous production monitoring, extending the value of testing efforts without additional script development.
• CI/CD Integration: Incorporate performance and availability checks directly into your CI/CD pipeline, enabling a true continuous testing culture and catching performance regressions before deployment.
• E-commerce & Business Leaders: Monitor key revenue-generating user flows, such as login, add-to-cart, and checkout processes, to ensure they are always functional and performant, directly protecting the company's bottom line.

Advantages of PerfAgents

PerfAgents offers significant advantages over traditional monitoring solutions:

• Cost-Effective: Dramatically lower your monitoring costs. PerfAgents is significantly cheaper than competitors like Dynatrace, Datadog, and New Relic, with a flexible pricing model based on usage.
• Increased Efficiency: Streamline your QA and DevOps processes by automating script creation and unifying testing with monitoring, reducing manual effort and headcount requirements.
• No Vendor Lock-in: By supporting open-source frameworks, PerfAgents allows you to use your existing skills and scripts, avoiding the need to learn proprietary tools or recorders.
• Proactive Issue Resolution: The combination of continuous monitoring and real-time alerts enables teams to detect and fix problems before they affect customers, reducing churn and improving brand reputation.

Pricing and Plans

PerfAgents offers a transparent and flexible pricing structure designed to be accessible for businesses of all sizes.

• Free Trial: You can start with an unpaid proof of concept to fully evaluate the platform's capabilities.
• Uncloud+ Plan: The basic subscription plan, ideal for getting started. It includes Ping Monitoring, REST API Monitoring, and a generous allowance of 4,000 Sequence Monitoring executions per month.
• Uncloud++ Plan: The advanced subscription plan for teams needing more power and support. It includes all features of Uncloud+, plus dedicated support, and access to the AI-powered features for creating and running monitors.
• Flexible Contracts: Both plans offer flexible commitment terms, including month-to-month, 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month options.