Which statement best summarises Synthetic Monitoring PoP placement?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
You place PoPs where tests must originate—matching user regions or internal networks—and make sure each one can reach its targets and the Instana backend. If it can't originate there or report back, it won't work. Everything else is a distraction.
Full Explanation
Deploying PoPs where tests must originate—matching user regions or internal networks—and ensuring each can reach both its targets and the Instana backend is correct because origin determines whether the result is meaningful, and two-way reachability determines whether it exists at all.
Testing from one central region for consistency is wrong because it makes every result equally irrelevant to distributed users.
Placing PoPs in isolated networks so they cannot be interfered with is wrong because isolation prevents result reporting and often prevents reaching the target as well.
Choosing placement by available storage capacity, since they retain test results locally, is wrong because results are sent to the backend rather than retained locally, so storage is not a placement criterion.
For the exam, be able to state both the placement rule and the connectivity requirement.