synthetic-monitoring-app
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Document frontend redirect
Customers want to link to check dashboards from external sources (like alerts, their own custom dashboards, etc). This is difficult because the path for a check's dashboards includes it's ID (/a/grafana-synthetic-monitoring-app/<the check id>/dashboard
, which isn't available in metrics. To handle this eventuality, there is a frontend redirect that will match a job/instance combo to a check ID and redirect to the appropriate dashboard: /a/grafana-synthetic-monitoring-app/scene?var-job=<the job name>&var-instance=<the target>
. People don't know this redirect exists, though, so we should make it known.
This will solve the issue for now, but ultimately I think it would probably be nicer to add the check ID to the check_info
metric so that it can be used in data links more easily.