Connecting Performance Testing with Observability
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About this talk
Performance testing tells you how your APIs behave under load. Observability tells you what’s happening inside your services. But when these live in separate tools, you’re left jumping between dashboards trying to piece together the full picture. In this joint webinar with Gatling, we walked through how to integrate Gatling Enterprise Edition with Dynatrace — connecting load test metrics directly to server-side traces, logs, and automated alerting workflows, and showing how to go from a failed test to a Slack notification without manual intervention.
Key takeaways
- How performance testing metrics (response times, error rates, connection counts) relate to server-side observability
- Setting up alerts based on Gatling test data — p95 latency thresholds, 500 errors, connection leaks
- How Dynatrace anomaly detection can trigger automated workflows during a test run
- Live demo: triggering alerts, kicking off workflows, and sending Slack notifications automatically
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