I am a big believer in synthetic monitoring as a concept to build reliable production services. If engineers are supposed to run what they build, they need monitoring tools that work for them. I have built my own custom solutions in the past using Jenkins or GH Actions and later used SaaS tools for this. I want to share my experience how I got frontend engineers to build monitoring and get everyone on an engineering team to care about production system reliability. Daniel Paulus is an accomplished technology leader, presently leading as the VP of Engineering at Checkly, building synthetic monitoring with Playwright.