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Hi, I'm trying to migrate some playwright tests to elastic synthetics and getting issues running the newer playwright methods e.g. getByRole. These are recognised when I run locally but not when I push to the server. What version of playwright is supported by synthetics right now? Will the newer getBy* methods be supported?

Thanks!

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It looks like Synthetics has shipped with Playwright 1.27.1 since v1.0.0-beta.38, which should contain the getBy* APIs. I'm unable to find however, which version of Synthetics is shipped with each version of Heartbeat/Elastic Agent, so I can't tell you which version of them you'd need to be on to leverage the features.

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Thanks for the reply! That's promising - I'm testing using the managed monitor instances right now but I can try using a private location instead to see if that works...

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@BenB196 is right that the @elastic/synthetics ships with 1.27.1 since v1.0.0-beta.38. But I see Kibana has a dependency on v1.26.0. Just checking internally if that's why you're seeing a discrepancy, and when support is planned.

@jasonwhetton, if you're looking for a workaround you can use page.locator with a role specified in the selector:

await page.locator('[role="my-role"]')

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Hi Carly!

Thanks, that explains what I'm seeing. I'm trying to combine migrating our tests with updating them so it would be really useful to know a rough timeframe.

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Will do. Just to check, when encountering these issues are you running them on public locations? Just checking since you mentioned you would try private locations instead.

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I've only run on the managed instances so far. Am currently setting up a local agent to test. I will let you know how it goes.

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Actually, I can't get the browser monitors to run on a local agent.

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Hi @jasonwhetton , got an update from the team that the image being used was on the old version and a prod change was pushed. Can you try with the latest and let us know if you're still having issues?

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It's working! That's great news. Thank you! Now I can demonstrate to the team:D

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Hi @carly.richmond.

I am not able to use some of the assertions I would normally find in the playwright library. For example:

await expect(page).toHaveURL(/.*checkout/);

Do you know if these are available in the synthetics library or if not whether they will be supported soon? Thanks!

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@jasonwhetton for now, all of them are not supported. but we have an issue to open to do that. Please leave a comment there if you have feedback. We will consider it and try to priorities it soon

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Thanks!

I have commented the issue.

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