v1.0.0-beta.42

Features

• Add support for enabling/disabling alerts for monitors #713

Bug Fixes

• Ignore recursively searching for yml files inside node_modules directory when pushing monitors #714

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-beta.41...v1.0.0-beta.42

v1.0.0-beta.41

Features

• Add support for passing custom data-test-id via PlaywrightOptions, this would help in the tests for locating the element via the custom attributes via page.getByTestId #706
• Update Playwright library to version 1.31.1

Bug Fixes

• Add proper monitor field heartbeat.monitors to lightweight scaffolding template #696
• Reword the --pattern option when help command is run #710
• Require node version >= 18.12.0 for running synthetics tests #708

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-beta.40...v1.0.0-beta.41

v1.0.0-beta.40

Features

• Move from ts-node to esbuild for transforming the TypeScript files at runtime. This includes journeys, synthetics config files which are .ts extensions and transform the files at runtime along with full source-map support. One of the advantage this provides is the ability to use the same esbuild API for both transpiling and bundling of the monitors #687
• Use new Kibana Bulk API endpoints for pushing project monitors #649
• Allow project based monitors to disable throttling via Synthetics config or by setting throttling: false #690
• Prompt users before overriding Synthetics config file when init command is called multiple times inside a Synthetics project #688

Bug fixes

• Update monitor in Kibana when when monitor content or config changes by generating unique hash #683
• Handle when users throw error like objects inside journey #694

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-beta.39...v1.0.0-beta.40

v1.0.0-beta.39

Features

• Improve the performance of push command when monitors are created or updated by chunking the monitors #666
• Add an example lightweight monitor yaml file when a new synthetics project is created via init command #650

Bug Fixes

• Parse varying NDJSON chunked responses sizes from Kibana when the API endpoint is behind a proxy #665
• Skip adding empty values for locations when creating new synthetics project using init command #658

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-beta.38...v1.0.0-beta.39

v1.0.0-beta.38

Features

• Improve the validation of project monitor schedule for both browser and lightweight monitors. Error would be thrown if users would configure monitor schedule that are not supported. For lightweight monitors, we would save the schedule to the nearest supported schedule frequency #622

  Current allowed schedule values are 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60 minutes respectively.

• Improve the push command experience by showing the monitor management URL link once the push has been completed successfully #637

Bug fixes

• Pick the correct loader when bundling TypeScript or JavaScript journey files during push command #626

Browser version

Playwright version has been updated to 1.27.1

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-beta.37...v1.0.0-beta.38

v1.0.0-beta.37

Bug Fixes

• fix an issue in newer versions of sharp by creating separate sharp instance to produce screenshots data #623

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-beta.36...v1.0.0-beta.37

v1.0.0-beta.36

Features

Project based lightweight monitors

In addition to pushing Project based browser monitors to Monitor management UI, the agent now supports pushing existing lightweight monitors directly from the heartbeat.yml files #542. Users can directly import the existing heartbeat.yml files in to their Synthetics project and configure the required project settings (Kibana host, auth key, locations, etc.) and run the push command.

1. Create a new Synthetics project using npx @elastic/synthetics init <dir-name> and configure the project related settings.
2. Copy the existing heartbeat.yml files in to the synthetics project directory. Example

   // heartbeat.yml example
  - type: http
    enabled: true
    id: my-monitor
    name: My Monitor
    urls: ["http://localhost:9200"]
    schedule: @every 10m
    locations: ["singapore"]
    private_locations: ["private-1"]
    timeout: 16s

3. Override the schedule, locations and private locations for specific monitors. Otherwise the defaults would be picked from synthetics.config.ts files.
4. Run the push command SYNTHETICS_API_KEY=<key> npm run push

Browser version

• Playwright version has been updated to 1.26.0, this means the tests will be run on Google Chrome/106.0.5249.30.

Bug fixes

• Transfer size of network requests now includes both the response header and body sizes #615

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-beta.35...v1.0.0-beta.36

v1.0.0-beta.35

Features

• Agent now prompts a warning question in interactive mode when users attempt to run push command without any active monitors which would nuke an entire project #598
• Users can suppress all prompt questions when running push command with --yes or -y flag #602

  SYNTHETICS_API_KEY="key" npx @ealstic/synthetics push --yes

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-beta.34...v1.0.0-beta.35

v1.0.0-beta.34

Features

• Synthetics push command now supports bundling external packages from node_modules folder for browser monitors, users can now use external packages utility packages like lodash, moment.js, etc, in their synthetics scripts and push them instantaneously to Kibana. #580

  Example journey code below using an external package is-positive from NPM.

  // test.journey.ts
  import { journey, step, monitor, expect } from '@elastic/synthetics';
  import isPositive from 'is-positive';
  
  journey('bundle test', ({ page, params }) => {
    step('check if positive', () => {
      expect(isPositive(4)).toBe(true);
    });
  });

  If you run npm run push inside the synthetics project, we would bundle the whole journey file along with the package is-positive to make the experience smooth. However, there are a few caveats when pushing external modules.

  1. Packages that use native bindings will not work.
  2. Users cannot push bundles that are more than 800 Kilobytes.

• Introduce configuring project monitor settings in the Synthetics config file #592. Comes in handy when running push command, users would be able to configure project-related settings like projectId, kibana host, and schedule and save them for successive runs.

• Support the SYNTHETICS_API_KEY env variable for Kibana authentication when pushing monitors to Kibana #588

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-beta.33...v1.0.0-beta.34

v1.0.0-beta.33

Bug Fixes

• Issue individual requests when pushing monitors to Kibana. This is to avoid timeout issues when monitors are pushed without streaming support #586

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-beta.32...v1.0.0-beta.33