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Grafana's Synthetic Monitoring

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Grafana's Synthetic Monitoring agent provides probe functionality and executes network checks for monitoring remote targets. Operated by Grafana Labs.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is Grafana's Synthetic Monitoring?

Grafana's Synthetic Monitoring is a web crawler operated by Grafana Labs. Grafana's Synthetic Monitoring agent provides probe functionality and executes network checks for monitoring remote targets.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Grafana's Synthetic Monitoring

Operator

Grafana Labs

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Grafana's Synthetic Monitoring crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Grafana Labs as part of their monitoring and analytics infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Grafana's Synthetic Monitoring

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for grafana/synthetic-monitoring 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's Synthetic Monitoring from crawling your entire site
User-agent: grafana/synthetic-monitoring
Disallow: /

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

Allow & verify

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