What problem does it solve? Managing Grafana Synthetic Monitoring checks manually through the UI or raw API calls is slow and error-prone. This Skill streamlines the full lifecycle of SM checks—creation, updates, GitOps-style sync, and deletion—through the gcx CLI with validated YAML definitions. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Check Lifecycle Management: Create, update, and delete HTTP, Ping, DNS, TCP, and Traceroute checks from YAML definitions with dry-run validation before pushing. - GitOps Workflow: Pull existing checks to YAML files, edit them in source control, and push changes back for version-controlled monitoring configuration. - Probe Selection Guidance: Recommends geographically distributed probes and enforces case-sensitive probe naming to avoid deployment errors. - Use Case: You need to monitor a new API endpoint. Provide the URL, and the Skill selects the HTTP check type, picks probes across three continents, scaffolds the YAML, and creates the check with a single gcx command. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to create a synthetic monitoring check for your target URL or hostname using gcx.
