Systems and methods for monitoring performance of applications

1. A computer implemented method for monitoring an application hosted on a server, the method comprising:

receiving a test request at a monitoring system, the test request comprising information about a synthetic test to be performed on an application and a test script for performing the test;

scheduling a monitoring task based on the test request, the monitoring task comprising information about a test start time;

in response to determining a scheduled monitoring task is ready for execution: automatically launching a client application within a container, retrieving the test script, and automatically executing the test script in the client application;

while executing the test script, automatically recording in real time, a state of a user interface of the client application;

initializing a virtual display server within the container to receive inputs from the client application and perform graphical operations on the inputs to generate display rendering information of the client application;

initializing a video recording tool within the container to receive the display rendering information and generate a video file based on the received display rendering information; and

upon ending of the monitoring task, transmitting the video file to a client device.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising analyzing the video file to determine whether the file is corrupted.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising generating a test log of the synthetic test comprising an indication of the performance of the synthetic test at one or more steps of the synthetic test.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 3 , further comprising:

synchronizing the video file of the recording with the test log; and

inserting markers in the video file at locations in the recording corresponding to the one or more steps of the synthetic test indicated in the test log.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 4 , further comprising:

determining whether one or more steps of the synthetic test have failed; and

upon determining that one or more steps of the synthetic test have failed, cropping the video file of the recording to retain portions of the recording corresponding to the one or more steps of the synthetic test that have failed.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

synchronizing the video file of the recording with the test script; and

inserting markers in the video file at locations in the recording corresponding to one or more lines of code of the test script.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining whether a size of the video file exceeds a predetermined threshold size; and

deleting the video file upon determining that the size of the file exceeds the predetermined threshold size.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the client application is a web browser.

9. A system for monitoring an application hosted on a server, the system comprising:

a processor,

a communication interface, and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing sequences of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

receive a test request, the test request comprising information about a synthetic test to be performed on an application and a test script for performing the test;

schedule a monitoring task based on the test request, the monitoring task comprising information about a test start time;

in response to determining a scheduled monitoring task is ready for execution: automatically launch a client application within a container, retrieving the test script, and automatically executing the test script in the client application;

while executing the test script, automatically record in real time, a state of a user interface of the client application;

initialize a virtual display server within the container to receive inputs from the client application and perform graphical operations on the inputs to generate display rendering information of the client application;

initialize a video recording tool within the container to receive the display rendering information and generate a video file based on the received display rendering information; and

upon ending of the monitoring task, transmitting the video file to a client device.

10. The system of claim 9 , further comprising analyzing the video file to determine whether the file is corrupted.

11. The system of claim 9 , further comprising instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate a test log of the synthetic test comprising an indication of the performance of the synthetic test at one or more steps of the synthetic test.

12. The system of claim 11 , further comprising instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

synchronize the video file of the recording with the test log; and

insert markers in the video file at locations in the recording corresponding to the one or more steps of the synthetic test indicated in the test log.

13. The system of claim 12 , further comprising instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

determine whether one or more steps of the synthetic test have failed; and

upon determining that one or more steps of the synthetic test have failed, cropping the video file of the recording to retain portions of the recording corresponding to the one or more steps of the synthetic test that have failed.

14. The system of claim 9 , further comprising instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

synchronize the video file of the recording with the test script; and

insert markers in the video file at locations in the recording corresponding to one or more lines of code of the test script.

15. The system of claim 9 , further comprising instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

determine whether a size of the video file exceeds a predetermined threshold size; and

delete the video file upon determining that the size of the file exceeds the predetermined threshold size.

16. The system of claim 9 , wherein the client application is a web browser.