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 PlayWhat keeps you up at night?
| Role / Worries | What you get with the app |
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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