Playwright testing observability: navigation timelines, network analytics, and CI metadata
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If you run Playwright in CI, you already have pass/fail signals. Testing observability means capturing the execution story around each failure: which URLs you touched, how the SPA navigated, what the network layer did, and which build or branch produced the run. The @testrelic/playwright-analytics reporter is designed for that workflow—it runs locally, writes structured JSON and HTML, and can feed the TestRelic cloud platform when you add an API key. This guide consolidates the official docs into one narrative for teams standardizing on Playwright.