Custom labels in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring: New updates for consistency and ease-of-use

Grafana Cloud updates Synthetic Monitoring to attach custom labels directly to all check metrics, removing the previous label_ prefix. This change aligns the schema with the rest of the platform, eliminating the need for complex joins. Users must migrate existing queries by March 2027 to prevent dashboard and alert breakage.

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