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How Can I Fix A Broken Script?

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Splunk Synthetics
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At Rigor, we provide crucial data to help our clients ensure that their websites are running smoothly. When issues arise, we recognize that it can sometimes be difficult to figure out where to begin troubleshooting. In order to make your experience using Rigor as easy as possible, and to ultimately save you time, we’ve created a series of troubleshooting checklists for the most common support issues.

Here’s how to diagnose a check that failed on a specific step in a Real Browser script (i.e. user flow):

  1. Optional Make a copy of the check for testing

  2. Open the check dashboard and search for the affected time period
    • When did the check fail? Is there a pattern amongst other failed runs?
    • Does the check regularly fail on the same step, or intermittently?
    • Is this the first time the check has failed on this step?
    • Was the alert for a specific location or across locations?
    • Knowing this can help narrow down the scope of troubleshooting
  3. Select a failed run and navigate to the 'Page Source'
    • Select Command(/Control) + F and search for the failed selector. If it's not available, then you'll need to find a new selector to replace it
  4. Visit the check settings, hit ‘Test’, and look at the screenshots
    • Look for clues in the steps preceding the failure
    • Were recent changes made to the page or site that may have affected the check?
  5. Open ‘Inspect Element’ in browser, open the page URL, and replicate steps locally until you reach the page with the failed step
    • Select Command(/Control) + F and search for selector to check whether it’s present on the corresponding page
  6. Once you find a new selector, search inside the 'Elements' tab in the browser and confirm that there is only one instance of this selector
    1. If the same selector appears more than once on the page, the check could break in the future
    2. If possible, try to find a unique selector
  7. If there are other selectors for the element, try them out and hit ‘Test’ in Rigor

Still running into issues? Contact Rigor Support with the information you’ve uncovered from following the steps above

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