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changelog

Changelog: Extended Handlebars template functions & Groups API

Tim Nolet, Batuhan Icoz on May 06, 2020 - 2 min read

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…

postmortem

Post mortem: failing checks us-west-1

Tim Nolet, Umut Uzgur on Apr 29, 2020 - 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…

building a saas

From Bootstrapper to VC backed in three months

Tim Nolet on Apr 28, 2020 - 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…

announcements

Checkly raises $2.25M seed round to push Active Reliability forward

Hannes Lenke, Tim Nolet on Apr 28, 2020 - 1 min read

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.…

changelog

Changelog: customize your webhook with method, headers and more.

Umut Uzgur on Mar 31, 2020 - 1 min read

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.…

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Changelog: Screenshots in GitHub PR's + design & stability updates

Tim Nolet on Mar 24, 2020 - 1 min read

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…

changelog

Changelog: Puppeteer & Chromium update

Batuhan Icoz on Mar 20, 2020 - 1 min read

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…

devops

Dips and Wiggles: Monitoring Website Performance with Checkly, Prometheus and Grafana

John Arundel on Mar 06, 2020 - 11 min read

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.…

changelog

Introducing Groups

Tim Nolet on Feb 25, 2020 - 3 min read

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…

devops

Automate active monitoring with Terraform and Checkly

John Arundel on Jan 30, 2020 - 8 min read

Update 28/10/2020 The Checkly Terraform Provider is now listed on the official Terraform Registry! We have updated the article to reflect the most recent changes. In this guest article John Arundel, consultant and author of Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes, introduces the Checkly Terraform provider. He explains what…

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