[DOCS] screenshot/video limitation (#3657)

* [DOCS] screenshot/video limitation * Update docs/en/observability/synthetics-create-test.asciidoc --------- Co-authored-by: Brandon Morelli <[email protected]>
elastic · Mar 8, 2024 · 8de692f · 8de692f
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@@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ in Elastic Synthetics including:
 * https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-video[Videos]
 * The https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-locatorassertions#locator-assertions-to-have-screenshot-1[`toHaveScreenshot`] and https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-snapshotassertions[`toMatchSnapshot`] assertions
 
+[NOTE]
+====
+Captures done programmatically via https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-page#page-screenshot[`screenshot`] or https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-page#page-video[`video`] are not stored and are not shown in the Synthetics application. Providing a `path` will likely make the monitor fail due to missing permissions to write local files.
+====
+
 [discrete]
 [[synthetics-make-assertions]]
 = Make assertions