Holistic Observability with Synthetic Monitoring and OTel Signals

To identify application behaviour and diagnose issues, we require many tools in our toolbox. OTel signals give us useful insights into these, but in many web applications we want to be alerted to application degradation and unavailability.

Synthetic Monitoring can provide that additional insight. Join me as I dive into combining OpenTelemetry signals with Synthetic Monitoring to provide a holistic picture of application behaviour and availability, and how they can be managed as code artifacts using Playwright JS and Elastic.