Proactive synthetic monitoring with Grafana Cloud

Powered by k6, Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring tests the reliability of websites, APIs, and critical user journeys worldwide to detect issues early and ensure seamless user experiences.

Stay on top of your SLOs

Proactively monitor the performance of user flows and applications at various network levels around the globe, helping you track SLOs and SLAs

Validate critical user journeys

Run browser-based checks that simulate real user interactions to detect and address regressions early

Investigate and resolve issues faster

Correlate Synthetic Monitoring results with metrics, logs, and traces in Grafana Cloud to pinpoint root causes quickly

Trusted by everyone from startups to the Fortune 500

Why use Grafana Cloud for synthetic monitoring?

Stay on top of SLOs

  • Verify system performance at various network levels: Ping, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, and TCP checks

  • Gain visibility into your global user experience by running checks from probe locations around the world

  • Visualize and alert on failures directly in Grafana Cloud

Validate critical user journeys

  • Simulate real browser interactions to measure Web Vitals and page performance

  • Proactively catch and address bottlenecks by testing complex, end-to-end user journeys

  • Configure window sizes to test across various device views

Shift left with reliability testing as code

  • Define tests and synthetic checks with precision and flexibility using JavaScript and the k6 API

  • Reuse test scripts across teams for the entire software development life cycle

  • Store monitoring resources in your GitHub repo alongside application code

  • Automatically deploy and maintain checks via Terraform or the API

Investigate and resolve issues faster

  • Track key performance metrics with out-of-the-box dashboards

  • Create custom dashboards, using generated metrics, for detailed analysis and reporting

  • Accelerate root-cause analysis by combining Synthetic Monitoring data with metrics, logs, and traces in Grafana Explore and dashboards

Real stories from real customers

“Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring offers great as-code support, enabling the SRE team to streamline the creation of synthetics checks. Developers only need to provide minimal details, such as job, target, methods, and probes to get the checks they need instantly.”

Rajendra VaishnavSenior SRE, LiveRamp

Get Synthetic Monitoring in Grafana Cloud

free
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$0

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Actually useful free tier with access to everything that Grafana Cloud has to offer.
  • Limited to 100k API test executions & 10k browser test executions per month

  • Community support

pro
Self-serve
$50/ 10k browser test executions
$5/ 10k API test executions

Pay as you go above the Free tier

Platform fee of $19 per month includes:
  • 100k API test executions & 10k browser test executions per month then pay as you go

  • 8×5 email support

enterprise
Full service
Custom

Scalable unit price based on annual commit

Minimum commit of $25,000 per year.
  • Premium support

  • Observability Architect

  • Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)

Part of your Grafana Cloud observability platform

Works seamlessly with other Grafana Cloud products including:

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Why choose Grafana Cloud

Open & unified platform

OpenTelemetry-native observability and no lock-in, with out-of-the-box solutions like Kubernetes Monitoring, Application Observability, Grafana SLO, and RUM delivered in one unified experience. 

Cost efficiency

Optimize costs without sacrificing insight with Adaptive Telemetry, which filters out unused data so your budget goes toward what actually drives value. Pair with cost management tools that help you monitor, control, and tune spend. 

AI & automation

Grafana Assistant powers agentic workflows, prebuilt dashboards, intelligent filters, and customized alerts—surfacing the data you need for faster, more efficient incident response. 

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