Public probes
In Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring, probes are the monitoring agents responsible for simulating user interactions with your web applications or services. These agents periodically send requests to predefined URLs and record the responses, checking for expected outcomes and measuring performance.
Grafana Labs operates public probes distributed in various geographical locations to simulate user traffic from different regions. That helps identify and analyze potential performance and availability issues that might be specific to certain locations. You can choose from public probes in AMER, EMEA, and APAC.
You can also set up Private probes in Synthetic Monitoring.
If you need to allow access through your firewall, refer to source IP addresses for allow-listing.
You can find a list of public probes and your private probes by going to Testing & synthetics > Synthetics > Probes.
The following is a list of available probes across Synthetic Monitoring by region, as well as the cloud provider it uses and any feature limitations.
Caution
The Atlanta, Dallas, Newark, Toronto, NewYork, SanFrancisco, Amsterdam, and Bangalore probes are deprecated. They will be removed at a future date and replaced by new locations. Refer to the status page for updates on removal dates.
The Americas (AMER)
| Location | Country | Cloud Provider | Limitations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta | US | Linode | Deprecated. k6 browser and scripted checks not supported |
| Dallas | US | Linode | Deprecated. k6 browser and scripted checks not supported |
| New York | US | Digital Ocean | Deprecated. k6 browser and scripted checks not supported |
| Newark | US | Linode | Deprecated. k6 browser and scripted checks not supported |
| North California | US | AWS | |
| North Virginia | US | AWS | |
| Ohio | US | AWS | |
| Oregon | US | AWS | |
| San Francisco | US | Digital Ocean | Deprecated. k6 browser and scripted checks not supported |
| Sao Paulo | BR | AWS | |
| Toronto | CA | Linode | Deprecated. k6 browser and scripted checks not supported |
Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA)
| Location | Country | Cloud Provider | Limitations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam | NL | Digital Ocean | Deprecated. k6 browser and scripted checks not supported |
| Cape Town | ZA | AWS | |
| Frankfurt | DE | AWS | |
| London | UK | AWS | |
| Paris | FR | AWS |
Asia-Pacific (APAC)
| Location | Country | Cloud Provider | Limitations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bangalore | IN | Digital Ocean | Deprecated. k6 browser and scripted checks not supported |
| Mumbai | IN | AWS | |
| Seoul | KR | AWS | |
| Singapore | SG | AWS | |
| Sydney | AU | AWS | |
| Tokyo | JP | AWS |
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