Monitoring and Observability with Selenium

In this unique deep dive, we will go through our approach to implement monitoring and observability solutions for E2E Test Automation.

Monitoring is in place? We will introduce the audience to Prometheus & PushGateway stack to be able to produce metrics and data for monitoring Selenium Grid. Any organization hosting their test infrastructure internally would be much interested on learning how to monitoring their solutions and alert engineering teams proactively for any incident that may occur.

Houston we have a problem! Incident found in our test infrastructure? Not a problem as we have AlertManager in place. Smoothly review how prometheus and alertmanager can notify teams via Slack or any messaging platform!

What about visualization? We will go one step further introducing how to build colourful and meaningful Grafana Dashboards for the most important Selenium Grid Metrics.

Do we need Test Metrics? In a long time running e2e functional suites we need to proactively send alerts and observe metrics like number of failed tests, number of skipped tests, number of total tests. We will review a practical example of how to enable metrics from within our test suites using Selenium and TestNG frameworks.

**ATTENDEE REQUIREMENTS**

Laptops are required for this session.

You will need:

• Docker Engine
• VS Code
• Slack
• Java

You may need to download some docker images before the session:

First of all, clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:Athens-SDET-Meetup/selenium_observability_workshop.git

Then, run the playground with:

cd selenium_observability_workshop; docker compose up -d

Please note this is a double session/90 mins Deep Dive.