Synthetic Monitoring and E2E Testing - Two Sides of the Same Coin

Explore a 32-minute conference talk from SREcon24 Europe/Middle East/Africa that examines the relationship between synthetic monitoring and end-to-end testing in DevOps environments. Learn how these seemingly separate practices are fundamentally interconnected and discover practical approaches to bridge the gap between development and SRE teams. Understand how to implement unified tooling solutions using Playwright, GitHub Actions, and Elastic Synthetics to achieve both production monitoring and development testing objectives. Gain insights from Elastic's Carly Richmond on breaking down silos between Dev and SRE teams by adopting common processes and tools for validating user experience across both production and development environments.