%% date:: [[2023-04-23]], [[2024-01-14]] parent:: %% # [[Grafana Synthetic Monitoring]] [docs](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/synthetic-monitoring/) [[Grafana Labs|Grafana]] [[Synthetic monitoring|Synthetic Monitoring]] (GSM) is a feature of [[Grafana Cloud]] that allows you to run checks at low load to [[Software Testing|test]] endpoints. It uses [[k6 (tool)|k6]] under the hood. GSM can be installed in a locally-hosted instance of Grafana, but it still requires a Grafana Cloud account to send results to the appropriate databases: [[Metrics]] to [[Prometheus]] and [[Logs]] to [[Grafana Loki|Loki]].  [^goh] ## Checks GSM can do several types of checks: - DNS - HTTP/HTTPS - Ping - TCP - Traceroute - MultiHTTP [^goh]: Magallón, Melendez, van der Hoeven. (2024). *Entendiendo los sintéticos*; [[CCG 008 - Entendiendo los sintéticos]]