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Synthetic Monitoring with Real Browsers
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Link to APM Distributed Trace for Available Network Requests From the Synthetics Waterfall #791

Open drewpost opened 1 year ago

drewpost commented 1 year ago

When an SRE is troubleshooting issues detected by synthetic monitoring test runs, one of the key questions they need to understand is "where" the problem is occurring. Is it something to do with a third party, content rendering or something else "front end" or is it related to a slow database, long network response etc ie "back-end".

The page load waterfall in synthetics is a key area this determination is made. In order to facilitate seamless issue triage and investigation, we want to:

Related historical investigations:

https://github.com/elastic/synthetics/issues/265 https://github.com/elastic/apm-dev/issues/926 https://github.com/elastic/app-obs-dev/issues/13 https://github.com/elastic/app-obs-dev/issues/13

paulb-elastic commented 1 year ago

Linking:

paulb-elastic commented 1 year ago

The Synthetics-APM integration spec has been defined in https://github.com/elastic/apm/blob/main/specs/integrations/synthetics.md