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Grafana Synthetic Monitoring

Name: Grafana Synthetic Monitoring
Author: Grafana Labs

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A synthetic monitoring agent that performs black-box testing by executing network and browser-based checks against remote targets to assess availability and performance. Operated by Grafana Labs.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is Grafana Synthetic Monitoring?

Grafana Synthetic Monitoring is a professional-grade observability tool operated by Grafana Labs that enables users to proactively test the reliability of their web applications and APIs. By deploying probes globally, the agent simulates real-world user interactions and network requests to provide consistent performance metrics and availability data. It is designed to help engineering teams track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and detect infrastructure issues before they impact end-users.

Helpful — This bot is a legitimate tool used by site owners to monitor the uptime, performance, and reliability of their own web services and APIs.

Identification

Bot name

Grafana Synthetic Monitoring

Operator

Grafana Labs

Why it crawls your site

The agent crawls specific endpoints defined by Grafana Cloud users to perform 'black box' testing, which involves measuring response times, status codes, and content correctness. It operates on a scheduled basis to ensure continuous monitoring of critical user journeys. Site administrators can verify the traffic by checking the source IP addresses against Grafana's published probe locations or by identifying the 'synthetic-monitoring-agent' user-agent string in their server logs.

Block or allow Grafana Synthetic Monitoring

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for synthetic-monitoring-agent in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Grafana Synthetic Monitoring from crawling your entire site
User-agent: synthetic-monitoring-agent
Disallow: /

# Allow Grafana Synthetic Monitoring full access
User-agent: synthetic-monitoring-agent
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows synthetic-monitoring-agent. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Grafana Labs's documentation.