Why Synthetic Tracing Delivers Better Data, Not Just More Data

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…