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.…
We're very happy to introduce groups to Checkly 👯! Grouping checks opens up a range of possibilities and workflow enhancements of which this initial release is just the tip of the iceberg. Here are some the thing you can start doing right now: Organize your checks per team, app, feature or…
In this guest article John Arundel, consultant and author of Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes, introduces the Checkly Terraform provider. He explains what Terraform is and why you'd want to use it, and shows how to use Terraform to automate and manage your website monitoring with Checkly. What is Terraform?…
We just shipped three updates based on customer feedback. Alerting when a check fails to scheduleWe saw some cases where an API check failed to run because there was an issue with the code executed in the setup script. However, we did not alert on this. Even more, we did…
I post openly about MRR, churn and other SaaS stuff on Twitter. I do this mostly for marketing purposes. Not going to lie. It's also kinda fun. At least when things are growing 😅... It's non-vanity metric Sunday! November 2019 Report for https://t.co/eT6akj23MC 💰 $3458 MRR (+$531…
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