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Documentation Learning paths Detect customer-visible outages using Synthetic Monitoring Destination reached!

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Detect customer-visible outages using Synthetic Monitoring

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Milestone 1

The value of Synthetic Monitoring

2 min

Milestone 2

Navigate to Synthetic Monitoring

1 min

Milestone 3

Initialize the plugin

1 min

Milestone 4

Create a ping check

1 min

Milestone 5

Select probe locations

2 min

Milestone 6

View the check dashboard

2 min

Milestone 7

Destination reached!

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Destination reached!

Congratulations on completing this journey! Job well done!

We hope you’ve enjoyed traveling with us as you:

• Learned about the value of Synthetic Monitoring for proactive blackbox monitoring
• Navigated to Synthetic Monitoring in Grafana Cloud
• Initialized the Synthetic Monitoring plugin for your account
• Created your first ping check to test endpoint reachability
• Selected global probe locations to monitor from multiple regions
• Explored the check dashboard with uptime, latency, and reachability metrics
• Explored the time point explorer to analyze individual check executions

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The world is your oyster! Read more about how you can:

• Create HTTP checks
• Create k6 scripted checks
• Configure Synthetic Monitoring alerts
• Set up private probes

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