Removing the Synthetic Monitoring Category

The Monitor grouprespond has a large scope and recently decided to pursue the Continuous Verification category over the Synthetic Monitoring Category. As such, the Synthetic Monitoring Category will be removed.

Why?:

Synthetic monitoring looks at specific routes, whereas continuous verification is monitoring what happens after any change. With continuous verification we are targeting to extend our CI/CD lead which is a GitLab company-wide FY23 Product Investment theme. One of the main objectives for this investment theme is to “Enable safe, secure deployments to production by executing on our Deployment direction.”

Approvals

Merge requests with changes to stages and groups and significant changes to categories need to be created, approved, and/or merged by each of the below:

• VP of Product @david
• The Product Director relevant to the affected Section(s) @kencjohnston
• The Engineering Director relevant to the affected Section(s) @sgoldstein
• Director of Product Design @vkarnes

The following people need to be on the merge request so they stay informed:

• Vice President of Development @clefelhocz1
• Vice President of Quality @meks
• Vice President of User Experience @clenneville
• The Product Marketing Manager relevant to the stage group(s) @supadhyaya
• Senior Manager, Technical Writing @susantacker

After Approvals and Merge

• Create an issue in the triage-ops project to update GitLab Bot automation
• Mention the product group Technical Writer to update the documentation metadata
• Share MR in #product, #development, and relevant #s_, #g_, and #f_ slack channels