testing

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

# 1. Create the check (full payload in references/synthetic.md)
curl -X POST https://synthetic-monitoring-api.grafana.net/sm/checks \
  -H

See references/synthetic.md for all check types, PromQL queries, and alert rules.

2. Run a k6 cloud load test

Full script + scenarios + CI YAML: references/k6-and-faro.md.

3. Instrument a frontend with Faro

Troubleshooting

• Synthetic check stuck at probe_success=0 → check probe_*_duration_seconds for the failing stage; the probe-region label tells you which prober errored
• k6 cloud run "ABORTED_THRESHOLD" → a threshold tripped; inspect the run page to see which one
• Faro events not landing → check the browser network call to /collect returns 202; common cause is wrong apiKey or url (must match the FE Observability app)

References

• For deep authoring of Synthetic Monitoring scripted (k6) and browser checks — execution model, assertions, secrets, API/Terraform payloads — see the synthetic-monitoring-checks skill
• references/synthetic.md — Synthetic Monitoring essentials: check types, key PromQL metrics, alert rules
• references/synthetic-monitoring.md — deep dive: full API for check CRUD, probe selection, scripted (k6) checks, multi-step browser checks
• references/k6-and-faro.md — k6 cloud script + Faro Web SDK init snippets for end-to-end testing
• references/k6-cloud.md — deep dive: k6 cloud config (project + load zones + thresholds), CI integration, run analysis

Resources

• Synthetic Monitoring docs
• Grafana Cloud k6 docs
• Faro / Frontend Observability docs