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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
We’ve just upgraded the Puppeteer library for our browser checks from v1.19 to v2.0.0. This release of Puppeteer is stable and includes 73 commits of new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Here are some notable changes from the Puppeteer release notes: Notable changes An updated ChromiumChromium…
In this article, SRE experts John Arundel and Andy Pearson show you how to combine Checkly's synthetic monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana to create an integrated observability pipeline.…
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