Playwright Monitoring: Turn E2E Tests Into Production Monitors

Short summary

Transform existing Playwright E2E tests into continuous production monitors by running them on a schedule against live environments with web-first assertions to avoid flakiness. Automatically capture screenshots, traces, and videos on failure for fast diagnosis. Integrate with alerting systems (Slack, PagerDuty) to route by severity; GitHub Actions cron is the free baseline, but dedicated platforms add sub-minute intervals and multi-region coverage.

• •Run Playwright E2E tests on a schedule against production as synthetic monitors for continuous verification
• •Use web-first assertions with timeouts instead of fixed sleeps to avoid false positives from real-world latency
• •Capture failure evidence (screenshots, traces, video) and integrate with alerting (Slack/PagerDuty) for faster MTTR

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