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Dashboards stayed green during an outage users definitely felt. Where does synthetic monitoring fit so this cannot recur?

Metrics describe the server's experience; synthetics describe the user's. The strong answer designs a few money-path journeys from real geographies, pages only on persistent failure, and budgets for script rot.

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Metrics describe the server's experience; synthetics describe the user's. The strong answer designs a few money-path journeys from real geographies, pages only on persistent failure, and budgets for script rot.

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