Grafana Cloud has significantly enhanced its Synthetic Monitoring capabilities in 2024, focusing on making monitoring processes more efficient and impactful by integrating Grafana k6 into the architecture, allowing for more complex user journey emulations. The introduction of multiHTTP and k6 scripted checks has expanded testing capabilities beyond simple HTTP endpoint checks, enabling verification of multi-step API interactions and data flows within applications. Additionally, the UI has been streamlined to simplify the setup and understanding of running checks, while the pricing model has shifted from telemetry-based to execution-based, aligning with industry standards and providing customers with 100,000 monthly executions under the free tier. Existing customers are encouraged to optimize their Synthetic Monitoring configurations by reviewing usage, reducing execution frequency, and using fewer probe locations to manage costs effectively.