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title: "How-to Guides | Speedscale Docs"
description: "Explore practical how-to guides for Speedscale's API testing platform, covering traffic capture, replay execution, and advanced feature configuration."
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[Documentation index](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/llms.txt) | [Markdown](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/index.md) | [Canonical page](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/)

# How-to Guides

This section contains practical, step-by-step guides for using Speedscale's API testing platform. Whether you're capturing traffic, running replays, or configuring advanced features, these guides will help you accomplish specific tasks.

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## Getting Started

### 📸 Creating Snapshots

Learn how to create traffic snapshots to capture API interactions. Set up recording sessions and capture real traffic patterns.

[Create Snapshots](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/creating-a-snapshot)

### 💻 Local Recording

Set up traffic recording from your local development environment. Capture desktop application traffic for testing and analysis.

[Record Locally](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/local-capture)

### 🌐 Browser Testing

Capture and replay browser-based API traffic. Perfect for testing web applications and frontend API interactions.

[Test Browsers](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/browser)

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## Testing & Replay

### 🔄 Replay Traffic

Master traffic replay techniques including load testing, mocks, and multi-service replays for comprehensive API testing.

[Learn Replay](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/replay)

### 🔑 Session Handling

Learn to identify and manage user sessions in your traffic. Handle authentication flows and session-based testing scenarios.

[Manage Sessions](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/identify-session)

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## Security & Configuration

### 🔒 Data Privacy (DLP)

Protect sensitive data with data loss prevention features. Automatically redact PII and sensitive information from traffic.

[Secure Data](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/dlp/introduction)

### 🔐 TLS Configuration

Configure TLS settings for secure traffic capture and replay. Handle encrypted connections and certificate management.

[Configure TLS](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/tls)

### 🔧 Troubleshooting

Diagnose and fix common issues with traffic capture and replay. Resolve pod problems and configuration errors.

[Fix Issues](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/troubleshooting)

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## Analysis & Reports

*   **[Reports](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/reports/)** - Understanding test results and performance metrics
*   **[Readiness](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/readiness/)** - The replay readiness scorecard: one verdict per report, a letter per metric family and acceptances
*   **[Traffic Recommendations](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/recommendations/)** - Automated insights from replay reports
*   **[Resend RRPair](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/resend-rrpair/)** - Resend and modify captured requests from the traffic viewer

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## Additional Resources

*   **[Advanced Filters](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/advanced-filters/)** - Create sophisticated traffic filters for precise capture
*   **[Command-line tools](https://docs.speedscale.com/getting-started/command-line-tools/)** - Choose proxymock or speedctl and find installation, quickstarts, and references
*   **[speedctl capture and replay](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/cli/)** - Existing platform workflows using speedctl
*   **[Ingress Traffic](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/ingress/)** - Capture cluster ingress traffic
*   **[GraphQL Support](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/graphql/)** - Working with GraphQL APIs: operations, semantic paths, transforms and recipes
*   **[JSON Payloads](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/json-payloads/)** - Handling complex JSON data structures
*   **[Load Patterns](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/load-patterns/)** - Configure realistic load testing scenarios
*   **[Argo Integration](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/argo/)** - Using Speedscale with Argo Rollouts
*   **[OTEL Integration](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/otel/)** - OpenTelemetry integration guide
*   **[Prometheus Metrics](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/prometheus/)** - Monitoring with Prometheus
*   **[CMEK](https://docs.speedscale.com/guides/cmek/)** - Customer-managed encryption keys