How to monitor Cypress tests with Grafana Cloud
If your Cypress suite has tests that fail more often or run slower, you know it can be hard to figure out the pattern from a single job. It could be one spec that slowed down, or a single test that fails, or maybe the entire suite is trending slower. The root cause could be a bug in the app, or a flaky test, or something else. Your terminal output and CI log will tell you what happened on a single run, but that doesn’t help you spot any larger trends—especially since you lose that data as soon as the job finishes.
Thankfully, Cypress, a front-end automated test framework built for web applications, already exposes everything you need through its plugin hooks. After each spec finishes, Cypress hands you a results object with pass and fail counts, per-test durations, and states. You just need to turn that into metrics and ship it somewhere durable.
In this post, you’ll learn how to monitor your Cypress tests by converting those results into Prometheus metrics inside a Cypress hook, pushing them to a Prometheus Pushgateway, and letting Alloy scrape the gateway and forward everything to Grafana Cloud Metrics—using nothing but the free tiers.
By the end you’ll have a pipeline running with the following architecture:
