The Checkly Blog

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!…

javascript

How we added custom languages, code completion and highlighting to the Monaco editor

Nico Domino on Jun 10, 2021 - 7 min read

We've recently launched a brand new in-browser editor for our browser check creation experience! Browser checks are Javascript-powered Playwright/Puppeteer scripts that run on deploy or on a schedule for testing and monitoring websites and web apps. While this new experience centers around an upgraded text editor, it is much…

devops

High-frequency checks are now live!

Timo Euteneuer on May 04, 2021 - 2 min read

We just released a big change on how often you can schedule your API and Browser checks. Together with our launching customer RMS — a leading property management solution — we looked at how we can catch hiccups and errors of mission-critical apps as early as possible and get better insights on…

postmortem

Post mortem: browser checks failing to report results

Tim Nolet, Nico Domino on Mar 29, 2021 - 2 min read

A bug in our code and a gap in our error handling & alerting caused a very limited amount of browser checks — to our knowledge just one — to stop reporting results to our processing backend. Although the impact seems limited, we did a full investigation and are sharing this post…

changelog

Changelog: Reporting, deployments and many, many enhancements and fixes

Tim Nolet on Mar 23, 2021 - 3 min read

Our product & dev team has been cranking out so many small, medium and big updates the last ~2 months, we thought we'd do a comprehensive sum up. Grab some coffee ☕️ and strap yourself in: the list is quite long! New features1. ReportingWe launched the beta of Reporting! You can…

benchmark

Cypress vs Selenium vs Playwright vs Puppeteer speed comparison

Giovanni Rago on Jan 27, 2021 - 8 min read

How does Cypress compare to Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO and Selenium, speed-wise? We ran our own benchmark to find out.…

terraform

It's code! Synthetic monitoring with Terraform Cloud & Checkly

Giovanni Rago on Jan 12, 2021 - 5 min read

Combining HashiCorp Terraform Cloud and Checkly allows you to configure API and synthetic monitoring as part of your existing infrastructure-as-code setup.…

benchmark