Synthetic Monitoring
Synthetic Monitoring is a black box monitoring solution provided as part of Grafana Cloud. Synthetic Monitoring gives you insight into how your applications and services are behaving from an external point of view.
You can define checks to continually test remote targets from probe locations around the world and assess the availability, performance, and correctness of services. As each check runs, metrics and logs are collected and published to Prometheus and Loki instances in your account.
Supported checks
The following types of checks are supported:
- Ping endpoints that support ICMP
- HTTP and HTTPS websites
- DNS to test domain name resolution
- TCP connection checks
TLS is supported where applicable. See the Checks page for more details.
Public probes
Public probes are instances of the open source Synthetic Monitoring Agent operated by Grafana Labs at distributed locations around the world. Checks are performed from configured locations and write results directly to your Grafana Cloud account.
If you need to allow access through your firewall, see source IPs for whitelisting.
Private probes
You can also install your own private probes and run checks from your own environment or any other locations you choose.
See the Private Probes page for more details.
Alerting
By default, Synthetic Monitoring alerting uses Grafana Cloud Alerting.
Next steps
See Installation and initialization of Synthetic Monitoring to get up and running.
Manage checks with the API
The Synthetic Monitoring API is available for those who want to manage their Synthetic Monitoring checks programmatically.
