Checkly is the API & E2E monitoring platform for the modern stack: programmable, flexible and loving JavaScript.
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…
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…
How does Cypress compare to Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO and Selenium, speed-wise? We ran our own benchmark to find out.…
Combining HashiCorp Terraform Cloud and Checkly allows you to configure API and synthetic monitoring as part of your existing infrastructure-as-code setup.…
Which one executes faster? Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO or Selenium? We ran our own benchmark to find out.…
We recently optimized the hell out of our Lighthouse score, and one of our landing pages went from a low 70s score to a cool 96 and above score.…
Managing large numbers of website monitoring checks by hand quickly becomes cumbersome. Luckily, Checkly's REST API allows us to automate most of the repetitive steps. Building on that API, the Checkly Terraform Provider takes automation one step further, enabling users to specify their synthetic transaction monitoring setup as code. In…
Update: this has been released as per 13:00 CET on 11 November. We delayed it a week due to some rescheduling of other items on our roadmap. This post is to give you a heads up of a change we will release on Tuesday November 3rd that could impact…
We are really excited to announce that you can now use Playwright in your browser checks for active monitoring. The popular Puppeteer Recorder Chrome extension also supports Playwright now and is renamed to Headless Recorder. This was on our public roadmap and cooking for some time now and we're glad…
After weeks of writing, researching and hopefully enough proofreading, we just launched a living collection of practical guides on leveraging headless browser tools (starting with Puppeteer and Playwright) for testing, monitoring, scraping, performance measuring and more. We called it theheadless.dev. This article is about the different approaches we tried…
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