Configure grafana alert for TCP checks and advanced configuration options?

[danfinn]

Describe the bug
Currently we are using some home written tools to add grafana synthetic checks for our deployments but IngressMonitorController would be a nice tool to be able to use. It seems like the grafana configuration options are pretty minimal though, at least according to the docs and looking at the CRD?

Currently, when we create our grafana synthetic checks we need the ability to:

• create http and tcp based checks, can this tool create tcp checks with grafana? if so, how is that done
• we specify multiple options when we create our checks, things like: alert sensitivity, valid status codes, and an option called basicMetricsOnly. is it possible to configure these additional options when creating a grafana check with IngressMonitorController?

[MuneebAijaz]

hi @danfinn , yes the grafana synthetic monitoring implementation is not complete at the moment, minimal things were done to get it started.
https://github.com/grafana/synthetic-monitoring-api-go-client/blob/main/docs/API.md any options available here can be used to extend IMC. However, that would require help from the community to be able to cover the API fully, since the team internally doesn't do active development on IMC.
Feel free to open a PR