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The Discovery Agent

Auto-author a Workbook from a URL; the live crawl and what it generates.

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The Discovery Agent

The Discovery Agent auto-authors a Workbook from a URL — so you never start from a blank canvas. Point it at your app; it crawls with a synthetic agent, learns the endpoints, and generates a runnable Workbook (web + API + APM + assertions).

Run a discovery session (step by step)

  1. Go to Workbooks → Discover.
  2. Paste the target URL and pick a synthetic agent that can reach it (a private agent for internal apps).
  3. Start it. The session streams live — you watch it navigate, find endpoints (e.g. GET /api/health), and reason about what the app is.
  4. When it finishes, it has generated a Workbook wired with the journey it found.
  5. Open it in the designer, adjust specifics, Run, then save and schedule.

What it produces

  • A web/API journey for the routes it discovered.
  • An APM Observe node for the service, and an assertion that there are no errors.
  • A starting point you refine — it gets you 80% there in seconds.
Discovery is the fastest path to a first Workbook; Templates are the next — both save you from the blank canvas.