--- title: Synthetic monitoring properties description: Synthetic monitoring includes the following properties. locale: en-US canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/it-operations-management/synthetics-properties.html release: brazil topic_type: reference last_updated: "2026-09-10" reading_time_minutes: 1 breadcrumb: [Reference, Synthetic monitoring, ITOM AIOps, IT Operations Management] --- # Synthetic monitoring properties Synthetic monitoring includes the following properties. These properties are available for synthetic monitoring. **Note:** To open the System Properties \[sys\_properties\] table, enter `sys_properties.list` in the navigation filter.
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| sn\_sow\_synthetics.logger | Controls logging output. Valid values are:- debug - info - notice \(default\) - warning - err - crit |
| sn\_sow\_synthetics.auto\_mid\_selection.skip\_phases | Determines the number of comma-separated phases to skip in selection cascade. Default value is empty. |
| sow.recommendation.enabled | Feature flag to enable recommendation tile on incidents and by default it is set to 'false'. |
| sow.recommendation.max\_endpoints | Determines the max endpoints to be shown in recommendation panel. The default value is 50. |
| sn\_sow\_synthetics.default\_mid\_location | Displays default location sys\_id for auto MID selection phase 5. The default value is 'null'. |
| sn\_sow\_synthetics.auto\_mid\_selection.enabled | Flag to enable/disable auto MID selection and be default it is set to 'true'. |
| sn\_sow\_synthetics.auto\_mid\_selection.dns\_cache\_ttl | Determines the DNS cache time for IP affinity phase. The default value is 300 seconds. |