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Set up Synthetic Monitoring in Grafana Cloud
Synthetic Monitoring is pre-installed in all Grafana Cloud Stacks. To start using Synthetics:
- Log in to your Grafana instance.
- On the left-side menu, select Testing & synthetics and then Synthetics.
- Click Initialize the plugin.
After that, you can start creating checks. Refer to Create your first check for next steps.
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