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title: "Synthetic monitoring | Grafana k6 documentation"
description: "Use k6 as synthetic monitoring tool, scheduling k6 smoke tests for continuous production monitoring."
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# Synthetic monitoring

You can use k6 as synthetic monitoring tool by scheduling k6 smoke tests for continuous production monitoring.

For a more comprehensive solution, you can use [Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/synthetic-monitoring/create-checks/checks/k6/) to proactively monitor your application and services in production. You can run k6 smoke tests at frequent intervals, receive alerts on potential issues, and manage incidents directly from [Grafana Cloud](/products/cloud/).