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Detect customer-visible outages using Synthetic Monitoring
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Milestone 1
The value of Synthetic Monitoring
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Milestone 2
Navigate to Synthetic Monitoring
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Milestone 3
Initialize the plugin
1 min
Milestone 4
Create a ping check
2 min
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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

View the check dashboard
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