CloudWatch Synthetics Recorder

Record user actions and generate CloudWatch Synthetics Canary scripts.

CloudWatch Synthetics Recorder Chrome Extension

CloudWatch Synthetics Recorder is a Chrome extension that lets users record their actions on their website and converts these actions into a Node.js script. The script can be used to create a canary in Amazon's CloudWatch Synthetics which can monitor your endpoints and APIs, testing the customer experience even in the absence of actual traffic. It is based on the Headless Recorder.

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By: CloudWatch Synthetics

Users: 4,000+

Rating: 3.40

(5)

Version: 0.0.2 (Last updated: 2020-11-02)

Creation date: 2020-11-02

Permissions:

storage
webNavigation
activeTab
<all_urls>

Size: 994.30K

Email: sy*****@amazon.com

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 15,152 ▲ 14

Other rankings

#204 in Developer Tools ▼ 1 #199 in script keyword 25 ▲ 10

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

It would have been useful if the tool had worked correctly. My team and I tried to use but the recorder seems to have issues with special characters such as : and it did not record xpath correctly. So it does give you a shell of what you need but you would need to manually clean up. I thought other recorders like Katalon recorder did a much better job of recording. So we have only started using Canary with API and checked specific urls rather than end to end testing.

Glenn Remar, 2021-09-22

In the interest of full disclosure I am an employee of AWS but do not work for CloudWatch. The synthetics recorder has been super useful for me so far! The way I use the recorder is that I will click through a flow that I want to test, generate the script, and then use that script as a skeleton as to the flow that I want to write a canary for. There has been a bit of drama with the source of this plugin but it seems CW really wants to make it right and have added credits to the extension's description. All of that aside the extension itself is really cool!

Lance Ruegger, 2020-10-21

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Risk impact

CloudWatch Synthetics Recorder requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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