diff --git a/packages/kbn-apm-synthtrace/src/scenarios/distributed_trace.ts b/packages/kbn-apm-synthtrace/src/scenarios/distributed_trace.ts
index cfe020ca8be24..a87cbfe5ab4d3 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-apm-synthtrace/src/scenarios/distributed_trace.ts
+++ b/packages/kbn-apm-synthtrace/src/scenarios/distributed_trace.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * Side Public License, v 1.
  */
 
-import { apm, timerange } from '..';
+import { apm, timerange } from '../..';
 import { ApmFields } from '../lib/apm/apm_fields';
 import { Scenario } from '../cli/scenario';
 
diff --git a/packages/kbn-apm-synthtrace/src/test/apm_events_to_elasticsearch_output.test.ts b/packages/kbn-apm-synthtrace/src/test/apm_events_to_elasticsearch_output.test.ts
index 3d4225cf3f243..afafcc0c49665 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-apm-synthtrace/src/test/apm_events_to_elasticsearch_output.test.ts
+++ b/packages/kbn-apm-synthtrace/src/test/apm_events_to_elasticsearch_output.test.ts
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ describe('output apm events to elasticsearch', () => {
           "version": "1.4",
         },
         "observer": Object {
+          "type": "synthtrace",
           "version": "8.0.0",
           "version_major": 8,
         },