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How low-level API calls can stabilize your end-to-end tests

Nico Domino on Jun 16, 2022 - 5 min read

We’re heavy e2e monitoring users here at Checkly and always experiment with how to architect our tests the best way. Over the past months, we’ve settled on a few workflows that make it much easier to spin up new tests, avoid code duplication, and make the entire test setup easier to manage.…

How to run Checkly in your infrastructure - our new private locations

Stefan Judis on May 23, 2022 - 4 min read

The monitoring and testing of public applications and APIs is challenging by itself. What should you test? How often should you run your tests? And who should be alerted? A scalable monitoring setup includes many hidden details, but technically it’s straightforward. Call public APIs and see if they do…

announcements

The new Check Overview is now live!

Lucy Tsotsorina on Apr 26, 2022 - 2 min read

Today, I'm excited to share the release of a long-planned and requested feature - our new Check Overview Page. The new Check Overview pageUntil now, Checkly enabled you to troubleshoot single alerts, but a deep dive into the long-term performance trends was limited. That is not the case anymore. In…

building a saas

Open sourcing our pay calculator

Kaylie Boogaerts on Mar 08, 2022 - 4 min read

We all know that pay is just as hard as it is important. Having a team distributed over 11+ countries makes pay even harder than in a traditional setup. I joined Checkly in mid-2021 with the promise of a fair and transparent culture in a remote tech startup and my…

How (not) to test signup and keep your CEO happy

Adam Wardecki on Feb 22, 2022 - 4 min read

One of the primary reasons for Checkly's existence is to allow for monitoring of key transactions on your site. In this post, we will reveal our cards and show how we test account creation and deletion.…

Checkly Runtime 2021.10 with faker.js and updated Playwright

Blair Rampling on Nov 23, 2021 - 2 min read

Checkly has released a new runtime version 2021.10. This is great news for anyone creating browser checks in Checkly, as we have added some new features and brought everything up to date. What's New?Here are some of the highlights of runtime 2021.10: Playwright 1.15.2: new…

User-scoped API Keys

Blair Rampling on Nov 17, 2021 - 2 min read

Checkly has released a change to the way API keys are created and managed. In the past, API keys were account-scoped. These account-scoped keys have full access rights to your Checkly account and no accountability to which user is using the key. When we originally built Checkly, we made it…

performance

Launching Performance and Error Tracing & new Vercel integration.

Hannes Lenke, Tim Nolet on Oct 26, 2021 - 3 min read

We are announcing Performance and Error tracing features for all Playwright-based browser checks. This means Checkly now collects: network traces, Web Vitals, console logs and generates screenshots on every error.…

building a saas

We scored 10.5 on GitLab's '12 Steps to Better Remote' test! 🎉

Kaylie Boogaerts on Sep 01, 2021 - 4 min read

Recently, GitLab released their '12 Steps to Better Remote' test with 12 yes or no questions to assess whether you're running a great remote operation. Checkly is a fully remote startup with 13 employees in 5 countries today. We are growing fast! In just one month from publishing, we'll be…

announcements

Checkly raises $10M for Developer Owned Operations

Hannes Lenke, Tim Nolet, Timo Euteneuer on Jun 30, 2021 - 2 min read

Checkly will use the CRV-led investment to build the best monitoring and E2E-testing platform for developers!…

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