Create and run a Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring k6 scripted check against an internal API
domain: grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/synthetic-monitoring · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Enable the Synthetic Monitoring plugin in your Grafana Cloud stack and obtain the Synthetic Monitoring API token from the plugin's Config page
Write a k6 script that imports k6/http, defines the default function with one or more HTTP requests, and uses the check() function to assert response status and latency
POST the check to the Synthetic Monitoring API at /sm/v1/check/add with type 'scripted', providing the base64-encoded k6 script in settings.scripted.script
Set probeLocations to one or more Grafana-managed probe IDs (list available probes via GET /sm/v1/probe/list)
Confirm the check is active by polling GET /sm/v1/check/list and verifying status
Query results via the probe's Prometheus remote-write metrics in Grafana (probe_success, probe_duration_seconds) or view them in the Synthetic Monitoring plugin dashboard
Known gotchas
k6 browser checks reached general availability in Grafana Cloud in May 2025 and require the k6 browser module import — they incur higher cost than scripted API checks
Synthetic Monitoring results are stored as Prometheus metrics in Grafana Cloud; alert on probe_success == 0 with a short evaluation window for fast incident detection
The k6 script must not use the vu.iterationInScenario or open() file-read APIs, which are unsupported in the Synthetic Monitoring runtime
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