The Checkly Blog (Page 2)

How we monitor Checkly's API and Web App (updated)

June 18, 2020

5 min read

Update 29-06-2020 Opsgenie IntegrationLast week we released the first version of our OpsGenie integration, making it easier for ourselves and our users to leverage Checkly together with the popular alerting and incident management platform. Here is how it looks like: Our plan is to put additional work into our integration…

Post mortem: checks with async IIFE reporting success incorrectly

Umut Uzgur

June 15, 2020

1 min read

Between 05.06.2020-12.06.2020, checks using the async IIFE syntax had runs marked as passed when, in reality, they were not correctly executed. Impact We detected 18 active checks which were affected. Root Causes Changes related to additional security measures for Browser checks changed the default behavior of…

devops

Easy E2E testing & monitoring with Gatsby, Vercel, and GitHub

Giovanni Rago

May 27, 2020

6 min read

Exciting times ahead. With the Jamstack gaining momentum, the landscape around it is offering more and more tools to streamline developer workflows and free up time for actual development. A cutting edge solution in this interesting space is Vercel, formerly known as ZEIT. In this blog post we will get…

postmortem

Post mortem: outage browser check results & alerting

Tim Nolet, Batuhan Icoz

May 19, 2020

2 min read

Monday 18 May we had an outage in processing browser check results between 15:44 PM UTC and 20:38 PM UTC. This was caused by a bug in our release and deployment software. API checks were not impacted. ImpactFor around 5 hours, we did not record any results for…

changelog

Changelog: Extended Handlebars template functions & Groups API

Tim Nolet, Batuhan Icoz

May 06, 2020

2 min read

Here is an overview of the features & fixes we released over the last month: Extended template functionsWe improved our Handlebars support by adding new helpers that will make creating checks and alerts easier and more powerful. 1. Random number and UUID generators In some scenario's, using a setup script…

postmortem

Post mortem: failing checks us-west-1

Tim Nolet, Umut Uzgur

April 29, 2020

1 min read

On 28-04-2020 from ~02:00 AM - 02:30 AM CET Checks failed to schedule due to downstream problems. Particularly the AWS SNS in the us-west-1 region seems to have been the issue. Checks were retried but still failed. This reports the check as a failure for that region. Impact…

building a saas

From Bootstrapper to VC backed in three months

Tim Nolet

April 28, 2020

7 min read

We just closed a $2.25M investment round led by Accel and a pack of top rate Angels. Lots to talk about, here's the itinerary: The vision.Setting goals.A timeline of events.Random learnings.On the investment round.Onwards! The visionLet's start at the end. Three months ago Checkly…

announcements

Checkly raises $2.25M seed round to push Active Reliability forward

Hannes Lenke, Tim Nolet

April 28, 2020

1 min read

We are thrilled to announce that we have just raised a $2.25M seed round. This round is led by Accel and some great founders — including current and former executives from Vercel (formerly Zeit), Instana, Twilio and many more.…

changelog

Changelog: customize your webhook with method, headers and more.

Umut Uzgur

March 31, 2020

1 min read

We just enhanced the capabilities of our webhook alerts. Our new design is now closer to the configuration of our API checks: 1. You can now choose any of the common HTTP methods. The default value will be set to POST. 2. You can now set headers for your webhooks.…

changelog

Changelog: Screenshots in GitHub PR's + design & stability updates

Tim Nolet

March 24, 2020

1 min read

We just pushed a new feature and some bug fixes around our GitHub deployments integration. First of you can now toggle whether we should show screenshots made in your Puppeteer scripts inside your GitHub PR. This is turned off by default.Checkly GitHub integration2. We updated the format of the…