testing

grafana-skills-testing helps you probe, load-test, and instrument web frontends and APIs from Grafana Cloud. It spans three pillars: Synthetic Monitoring for external uptime and protocol checks (HTTP, DNS, TCP, Ping, Traceroute, Multihttp, and scripted k6-browser checks) run from 20+ global probes; Grafana Cloud k6 for distributed load testing across AWS load zones with pass/fail thresholds; and Frontend Observability with the Faro Web SDK for real-user monitoring, Core Web Vitals, custom events, and error-to-trace correlation.

The skill provides concrete, verifiable workflows: creating a synthetic HTTP check via the Synthetic Monitoring API and confirming that probe_success metrics arrive, running a k6 cloud load test (validate locally first, then launch in the cloud and gate CI on threshold exit codes), and wiring Faro into a React or Vue app. It documents the required credentials (an sm:write token, a Grafana Cloud k6 token plus projectID, and a Faro app write-token) and includes rollback guidance such as deleting or disabling a check, keeping operations reversible.

It is aimed at SREs, platform, and frontend engineers who need multi-region uptime checks, release-gating load tests, TLS-certificate expiry alerts, or RUM and Core Web Vitals tracking — including when a user asks in plain terms like "is my login flow up?", "monitor my API", or "release-gate load test" without naming the underlying products.