What sort of outage occurs when all Synthetic Locations simultaneously experience 1–5 consecutive failures?

A Global outage is detected when all configured Synthetic locations report failures at the same time within a defined number of consecutive failed executions. This indicates that the issue is not location-specific but instead affects the application or service globally.

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring differentiates between:

Local outages , where only a subset of locations fail (indicating regional or network-specific issues)

Global outages , where all locations fail simultaneously, indicating a widespread availability problem

Options such as Public Synthetics and Private Synthetics refer to types of Synthetic locations, not outage classifications.