Improving the SSL certificate expiration monitoring

Batuhan Icoz
1 min read

We just updated our SSL certificate expiration monitoring. This update gives you more control over where and when you want to receive alerts. Before today, certificate alerts were set as part of "Alert Settings" tab, either globally or using specific settings for checks & check groups. This wasn't all that…

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building a saas

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

Giovanni Rago
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…

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Post mortem: checks with async IIFE reporting success incorrectly

Umut Uzgur
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…

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postmortem

Post mortem: failing checks us-west-1

Tim Nolet
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…

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building a saas

From Bootstrapper to VC backed in three months

Tim Nolet
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…

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