fix: end timestamp should reflect duration #410
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Problem
Heartbeat monitor calculation is based on the event.timestamp field for journey start and journey end event. Synthetic agent journey/end timestamp is calculated after post processing of the screenshots and network events being written to the JSON output. As a result, Step duration and Monitor duration timings would be hugely different as we are accounting for all the CPU heavy work that comes to extracting and chopping screenshots.
Solution
We use the timestamp during journey end and don't account for the time taken for the post processing of other work that synthetics agent is doing under the hood.