3. Synthetics to APM

We now should have a view similar to the one below.

Place Order Place Order

Exercise
  • In the waterfall find an entry that starts with POST checkout.
  • Click on the > button in front of it to drop open the metadata section. Observe the metadata that is collected, and note the Server-Timing header. This header is what allows us to correlate the test run to a back-end trace.
  • Click on the blue APM link on the POST checkout line in the waterfall.

APM trace APM trace

Exercise
  • Validate you see one or more errors for the paymentservice (1).
  • To validate that it’s the same error, click on the related content for Logs (2).
  • Repeat the earlier exercise to filter down to the errors only.
  • View the error log to validate the failed payment due to an invalid token.