Synthetic Monitoring for Acceptance Tests

Datadog migrated its internal acceptance tests from a custom Puppeteer-based runner to its own Synthetic Monitoring product. This involved developing a CLI tool (`datadog-ci`) to trigger and manage synthetic tests from CI environments, aiming to reduce flakiness, improve maintainability, and decrease test execution time. The migration process involved identifying pain points through developer surveys and implementing a solution that leverages the existing Synthetic Monitoring platform for recording and executing tests.