Synthetic Monitoring overview | Grafana Cloud
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This video introduces Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring, a solution for simulating user behavior from global probe locations to measure availability, performance, and correctness of applications. It covers supported check types (HTTP, DNS, TCP, traceroute, k6 browser checks), integration with Prometheus blackbox exporter, and how to set up monitoring for both public and internal services. Ideal for DevOps engineers, SREs, and platform teams looking to implement proactive user experience monitoring.