Eight synthetics probe locations being replaced in February 2025

Starting in early 2025 we will roll out eight new public probe locations running in AWS: Stockholm, Zurich, Spain, UAE, Montreal, Calgary, Hyderabad, and Indonesia.

These eight new regions will replace the remaining eight locations running out of Linode and Digital Ocean: Atlanta, Dallas, Newark, Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam, and Bangalore. These regions are deprecated and will be removed between January 27 and February 14, 2025. Exact dates and times will be posted as maintenance notices on our status page.

Why are we doing this?

Functionality: Digital Ocean and Linode locations have limitations that prevent us from running new synthetics capabilities like k6-powered scripted and browser synthetics. By replacing these locations with new AWS locations, we can deliver you new capabilities in all public probes.

Reliability: Our AWS probes have proven to be our most reliable. We expect this change to improve the overall reliability of Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring.

Geographic rebalancing: The new locations provide a better distribution across regions to serve customers globally. Once these eight locations have been replaced AMER will have 7 locations, EMEA will have 8, and APAC will have 7.

I run tests in a deprecated location. What should I do?

If your tests are location sensitive, we recommend you move them to the next nearest geographic location before Friday January 24, 2025 (refer to the table below). If you have any location specific alerts, you will want to adjust those as well. When a location is shut down, any tests running in that location will be migrated to another probe location to ensure continuity.

Deprecated Location	Recommended Location
Atlanta	North Virginia
Dallas	Ohio
Newark	North Virginia
NewYork	North Virginia
SanFrancisco	North California
Toronto	Ohio
Amsterdam	London
Bangalore	Mumbai

Can I still use a deprecated location?

Yes, you can continue using probe locations as usual until they are removed. The deprecation signals they are slated for removal, but there is no loss in functionality.

When will the new locations be available?

The new regions will be rolled out incrementally in January and February 2025.

Refer to the status page for updates on the exact migration dates and times. These updates will include the IPv4 and IPv6 CIDR ranges of new locations.