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…
Update 14-11-2019 Just got the dreaded rejection email! Bit disappointed, but not bitter or disillusioned at all. Reasons were: Unclear differentiator from Datadog except price: not sure if I fully agree. Probably need to tweak investor pitch to make this clear.Not having a cofounder: turns out solo-founding in my…
Update 31-10-2019Today, a customer reported that on public dashboards, the contents of any browser check script are part of the API response that supplies the dashboard with data. Admittedly, this was by design not due to a bug or hack: In our thinking, browser check scripts should not contain sensitive…
When adding a new feature to Checkly or refactoring some older piece, I tend to pick Heroku for rolling it out. But not always, because sometimes I pick AWS Lambda. The short story: Developer Experience trumps everything.AWS Lambda is cheap. Up to a limit though. This impacts not only…
In a recent post on customer feedback I mentioned being a recent convert to chat widget-driven tools. I thought they sucked, but I was wrong. Since then, I actually switched from Drift to Intercom because Intercom's focus — support & communication — matched my business better than Drift's heavy sales focus. To…
A big part of Checkly runs on AWS Lambda, but I never really discussed it in depth before on this blog. So here we go. Topics are: A little bit on our Lambda setup.Why Lambda is an almost perfect match for SaaS. Especially when you're small.Why I don't…
Ok, not completely true. I also use Stripe, Github, AWS, Heroku, Ghost, AppOptics, Intercom and Mailchimp. And some bookkeeping and tax tools. Don't forget the code editors! But! When I plan my day, I spend most of my time in Trello and Apple's stock Reminders app. I also use Numbers…
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