Can an agent create a monitor with Grafana Labs Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring?
Who does each step
Whether the agent handles it alone or a person has to step in.
- 01
Discover
MachineThe vendor's machine-readable docs show the agent where and how to call this job.
- 02
Access
Workaround · setupYou give the agent a key or token.
- 03
Onboard
Workaround · setupYou sign up or register a client for the agent.
- 04
Pay
Not applicableNothing to pay for the job.
- 05
Confirm
MachineThe response or specification defines errors the agent can distinguish from success.
- 06
Sustain
Workaround · setupYou replace or revoke the agent's access when it needs to change.
- Access: handing over a key or token.
- Onboard: signing up or registering a client for the agent.
- Sustain: renewing, replacing or revoking its access.
To remove these handoffs: support OAuth client registration so the agent can register its own client and ask for consent; provide an agent registration route, such as auth.md, a sign-up API or OAuth client registration; provide key management or OAuth refresh and revocation so the agent can maintain its own access.
Agent surfaces
The probe
Each request it sent and what came back; the descriptors it read, counted, with what they named.
Discover37 descriptor reads2 facts
- Found
- For agentsgrafana.com/llms.txtFor agentssynthetic-monitoring-api.grafana.net
- From
- grafana.com/llms.txt · grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/synthetic-monitoring/api-reference/
- This endpoint
- synthetic-monitoring-api.grafana.net is named by a document written for agents
Job requestPOST synthetic-monitoring-api.grafana.net/api/v1/check403116 ms
- Request
- POST https://synthetic-monitoring-api.grafana.net/api/v1/check
- Response
- 403 · application/json · 62 bytes
- Body
- sha256:adf6eefc281e655a429fc3e8616f078f7299dd0c3b29b3613f4970a02852e312
- Exchange
- sha256:a4608ed81c9a7ef80af04661fdb3cc5af00dcb0bb767e0d6c6c0cec0bdcabc20
Resource metadataGET synthetic-monitoring-api.grafana.net/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/api/v1/check404109 ms
- Request
- GET https://synthetic-monitoring-api.grafana.net/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/api/v1/check
- Response
- 404 · text/plain · 18 bytes
- Body
- sha256:99eb12f2ab3c4866a353e098ffa3cb7a967e617c49b98480394ec5d8ea92b094
- Exchange
- sha256:5fdada9e2cc0354139a9e9a7b22f829655fed5e16f20bd576024c658d6b0e0a4
Resource metadataGET synthetic-monitoring-api.grafana.net/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource404110 ms
- Request
- GET https://synthetic-monitoring-api.grafana.net/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
- Response
- 404 · text/plain · 18 bytes
- Body
- sha256:99eb12f2ab3c4866a353e098ffa3cb7a967e617c49b98480394ec5d8ea92b094
- Exchange
- sha256:7eaff8b7b2c7f081cfdd8081987e78db9bae3a2cf8c73eed46942a488db80e07
Declared pageGET grafana.com/auth/sign-up/create-user/20072 ms
- Request
- GET https://grafana.com/auth/sign-up/create-user/
- Response
- 200 · text/html · 998 bytes
- Body
- sha256:b87f6f77ef59d25b79da1180778b15be78d4a7a944f2701a76692a8bff4016f8
- Exchange
- sha256:f1dfb62507d7e899d4c94b5c9ca338e84809a97e6392ef73fb2293e6d01c8fe0
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- Profile
- arp_01m4tamp8n4065037en7avvs66
- Projection
- sha256:a60df2618d825ab4ae4d467d7d1171004e12192df7fc2f2781251bb4add5e508
- Policy
- kind-2026-10-12.2 · sha256:b612172aad277b54461de84e006815126f2df566563954b02f4432a39cad89ac
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