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title: "Synthetic Monitoring | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Learn about Synthetic Monitoring and how it can give you insight into how your applications and services are behaving with our blackbox monitoring solution."
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# Synthetic Monitoring

Test applications and services by creating checks that continuously run against remote targets from probe locations around the world, and assess their availability, performance, and correctness.

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## Overview

[Synthetic Monitoring](/grafana/plugins/grafana-synthetic-monitoring-app) is a black box monitoring solution provided as part of Grafana Cloud. It lets you assess your systems’ availability, performance, and correctness by emulating user behavior from global probe locations.

Each execution of a check simulates a single user performing a single iteration from one location. This ensures consistent, lightweight monitoring that reflects real-world access patterns and allows for alerting and predictable scheduling.

Give it a try using Grafana Play

With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on [Synthetic Monitoring](https://play.grafana.org/a/grafana-synthetic-monitoring-app/home).

[Try it](https://play.grafana.org/a/grafana-synthetic-monitoring-app/home)

## Explore

[Introduction  
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Learn more about the key benefits and features that are available with Synthetic Monitoring.](./introduction/)

[Get started  
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Get started and create your first check. Learn how to visualize the logs and dashboard.](./get-started/create-your-first-check/)

[Set up  
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Explore the set up options for Synthetic Monitoring.](./set-up/)

[Create checks  
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Learn more about the available check types you can use to test your services.](./create-checks/checks/)

[Configure alerts  
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Create and customize alerts for your Synthetic Monitoring checks by using Alertmanager.](./configure-alerts/configure-default-alerts/)