{"id":"e4762fa7-f192-45b4-94d9-8b36e1696a89","task":"Implement synthetic monitoring with browser and API checks","domain":"grafana.com","steps":["Create an API check in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring targeting a critical endpoint with expected status code and response body assertions","Configure a browser check using a scripted Playwright or k6 browser test to simulate a real user login or checkout flow","Set probe locations across multiple geographic regions to detect region-specific latency or availability issues","Define alert thresholds on check success rate and response time and route them to the same alerting channels as other production monitors","Use the synthetic check trace IDs to correlate synthetic test failures with backend traces in Tempo"],"gotchas":["Synthetic checks that authenticate with real user credentials can affect account state or trigger rate limits; use dedicated synthetic test accounts with minimal permissions","Browser checks using JavaScript-heavy SPAs must account for dynamic content loading; use explicit wait conditions rather than fixed sleep durations to avoid flaky results","Synthetic check probe traffic can appear in application metrics and logs; tag or filter synthetic probe IP ranges to avoid polluting real-user analytics"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-13T06:22:06.383Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"verification":{"status":"sampled","method":"legacy-file-sample","at":"2026-06-13T18:44:40.623Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/e4762fa7-f192-45b4-94d9-8b36e1696a89"}