Synthetic tracing can be an alternative for modern observability teams, helping them avoid the cost of tracing every click. Better data, lower bills — what’s not to like?
In modern observability practices, distributed tracing has become table stakes. Most application performance monitoring (APM) platforms encourage an “instrument everything” approach: Deploy an SDK or agent, hook into every service call and capture every user interaction at scale. On paper, this sounds like complete visibility. In practice, it can turn into a costly…
