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Section 7 · Test and respond with turnkey solutions

Detect outages before users do and validate performance before traffic spikes.

Estimated time: 2 min

Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring

Before your users encounter a problem, Synthetic Monitoring lets you:

Simulate real user interactions, from simple uptime pings to complex browser journeys
Verify availability and performance from 20+ locations around the world

In a single Grafana dashboard:

You define checks as code.
Version the checks in Git, and manage them via Terraform or the API.
Debug failures by correlating with metrics, logs, and traces.

Try it out in Grafana Play

What keeps you up at night?

Role / Worries	What you get with the app
SRE, On-Call Engineer I find out services are down when users report it, not from my own alerts By the time I know there’s a problem, it’s already affecting people	Checks run continuously from 20+ locations around the world. You get alerted the moment something degrades, before users encounter it. When a check fails, you correlate it directly with metrics, logs, and traces in the same Grafana dashboard, so you’re not switching tools to investigate
Developer I need to know if my endpoint is up and performing, especially after a release No way to validate this without waiting for real traffic or a user complaint	HTTP, DNS, ping, and multi-step browser checks let you verify availability and performance at any time, including when real traffic is low You can run checks against internal endpoints too, using private probes behind your firewall, not just public-facing URLs
Platform, DevOps Engineer Synthetic monitoring setup is a pile of manually configured GUI checks Nobody can review them, nobody versioned them, and nobody understands them except the person who set them up	Checks are defined as code using k6, versioned in Git, and deployed via Terraform or API, the same way you manage everything else in your stack 8 check types from simple pings to complex multi-step browser journeys, all manageable as code
VP Engineering, Engineering Manager Paying for synthetic monitoring as part of a Datadog or New Relic contract The cost has grown every time we’ve added a service or location	Execution-based pricing: you pay for what you run, not per seat or per host 100k API executions and 10k browser executions included free every month, and Synthetic Monitoring runs in the same Grafana Cloud instance you already have. No separate contract.