Grafana Cloud Testing

Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/

Three pillars: external probing (Synthetic Monitoring), load testing (k6 Cloud), real-user monitoring (Faro).

Prerequisites

• Grafana Cloud stack
• Synthetic Monitoring: SM access token (sm:write)
• k6 Cloud: a Grafana Cloud k6 token + projectID
• Faro: a Faro app + write-token from Frontend Observability → Apps

Common Workflows

1. Create + verify a Synthetic HTTP check