Navigate to Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring is available as an app within Grafana Cloud. The Synthetic Monitoring home page provides an overview of all your checks, their current status, and key performance metrics. From this central location, you can create new checks, view dashboards, and access detailed check results.

When you first access Synthetic Monitoring, you’ll see a summary of your checks’ health, including uptime percentages, latency measurements, and error rates across all probe locations. This overview helps you quickly identify any services that need attention.

To navigate to Synthetic Monitoring in Grafana Cloud, complete the following steps:

1. Log in to your Grafana Cloud instance.
2. On the left-side menu, select Testing & synthetics.
3. Select Synthetics.

The Synthetic Monitoring home page displays. If this is your first time accessing Synthetic Monitoring, you’ll see an option to initialize the plugin and get started with creating checks.

In the next milestone, you’ll learn how to initialize the Synthetic Monitoring plugin.