Karl, the Head of Platform Engineering at an e-commerce company, shared his experience with Monitoring as Code (MaC), which has transformed his team's approach to monitoring. Traditional synthetic monitoring setups, where tests are created and managed in separate consoles, led to inefficiencies such as duplicated effort, wasted resources, and disconnected monitoring from development workflows. MaC brings monitoring into the same space where developers work every day, making it easier to track costs, find tests, and integrate monitoring into daily workflows. By adopting MaC, Karl's team was able to save over $1 million in annual costs, take ownership of their tests, and make monitoring a natural part of building and running software.