Synthetic Monitoring with David Dick (Episode 97)

This week I'm joined by David Dick from 2 Steps to (finally!) discuss synthetic monitoring. We cover...

🤖 What is synthetic monitoring?
🦾 What are the benefits and drawbacks to using it?
☢️ Non-web based synthetics (the tough stuff)
🍹 Combining RUM and synthetics
🫢 Does synthetics need an OTEL-like framework?

...and much more.

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