Grafana Cloud Monitor public endpoints Set up Synthetic Monitoring in Grafana Cloud

Set up Synthetic Monitoring in Grafana Cloud

Synthetic Monitoring is pre-installed in all Grafana Cloud Stacks, each stack in Grafana Cloud Org can have an installation of Synthetic Monitoring.

1. Click Observability and then select Synthetics.
2. Click Initialize the plugin.

This will configure Synthetic Monitoring in your Grafana Cloud Stack, See Getting started for next steps.

Install on local Grafana (skip this section if using Grafana Cloud)

Use the grafana-cli tool to install Synthetic Monitoring from the command-line:

bash

grafana-cli plugins install grafana-synthetic-monitoring-app

The CLI installs the plugin in your Grafana plugins directory. The default location is /var/lib/grafana/plugins.

NOTE: Synthetic Monitoring requires a Grafana Cloud account for logs and metrics storage as Synthetic Monitoring doesn’t support local logs and metrics storage. Grafana Cloud Free Tier is sufficient for a basic Synthetic Monitoring setup.

To enable and initialize Synthetic Monitoring in your local Grafana Grafana instance:

1. Setup provisioning files as described in GitHub.
2. In Grafana, navigate to Administration > Plugins.
3. Select Synthetic Monitoring from the list.
4. Click Install.
5. Click Enable to start the initialization process.
6. Navigate to Observability > Synthetics.
7. Click Initialize the Plugin

Next steps

Refer to the Getting started page to create your first check.