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title: "Check metrics | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Check metrics Synthetic Monitoring check results are stored as Prometheus metrics in your Grafana Cloud Prometheus instance. The following is a list of metrics common to all check types:"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Check metrics

Synthetic Monitoring check results are stored as Prometheus metrics in your Grafana Cloud Prometheus instance. The following is a list of metrics common to all check types:

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| Metric                       | Description                                                         |
|------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `probe_all_duration_seconds` | Returns how long the probe took to complete in seconds (histogram). |
| `probe_duration_seconds`     | Returns how long the probe took to complete in seconds.             |
| `probe_all_success`          | Displays whether or not the probe was a success (summary).          |
| `probe_success`              | Displays whether or not the probe was a success.                    |
| `sm_check_info`              | Provides information about a single check configuration.            |

Additionally, each check type also generates its own set of metrics:

- [DNS metrics](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/synthetic-monitoring/create-checks/checks/dns/#metrics)
- [HTTP metrics](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/synthetic-monitoring/create-checks/checks/http/#metrics)
- [k6 browser metrics](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/synthetic-monitoring/create-checks/checks/k6-browser/#metrics)
- [k6 scripted metrics](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/synthetic-monitoring/create-checks/checks/k6/#metrics)
- [MultiHTTP metrics](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/synthetic-monitoring/create-checks/checks/multihttp/#metrics)
- [Ping metrics](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/synthetic-monitoring/create-checks/checks/ping/#metrics)
- [TCP metrics](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/synthetic-monitoring/create-checks/checks/tcp/#metrics)
- [Traceroute metrics](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/synthetic-monitoring/create-checks/checks/traceroute/#metrics)

You can then query these metrics to analyze the results of your checks, [build custom dashboards](/docs/grafana-cloud/visualizations/dashboards/build-dashboards/create-dashboard/), or [set up alerts](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/synthetic-monitoring/configure-alerts/).