--- title: How to manage synthetic monitoring checks as code with... description: Managing Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring checks manually in the UI becomes error-prone at scale. Using Terraform to define checks as code enables version... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-manage-synthetic-monitoring-checks-as-code-with-terraform-and-grafana-cloud-gqgq0oqbz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to manage synthetic monitoring checks as code with Terraform and Grafana Cloud | daily.dev og:description: Managing Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring checks manually in the UI becomes error-prone at scale. Using Terraform to define checks as code enables version... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-manage-synthetic-monitoring-checks-as-code-with-terraform-and-grafana-cloud-gqgq0oqbz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gQGQ0OQbZ.png og:image:alt: How to manage synthetic monitoring checks as code with Terraform and Grafana Cloud og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to manage synthetic monitoring checks as code with Terraform and Grafana Cloud **[Grafana Labs](https://daily.dev/sources/grafana)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Managing Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring checks manually in the UI becomes error-prone at scale. Using Terraform to define checks as code enables version control, consistent configurations across environments, and CI/CD integration. The workflow involves prototyping a check in the Grafana UI, generating an access token and API endpoint URL, configuring the Terraform provider, exporting the check as HCL, and then using terraform apply to deploy and manage updates. Once Terraform owns the state, UI edits should be avoided to prevent configuration drift. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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