The Case for Monitoring as Code
Checkly co-founder and CEO Hannes Lenke makes the case for adoption of Monitoring-as-Code (MaC) workflows.…
Kickstart Your Synthetic Monitoring Efforts With Our Free Online Workshop
Join our free online Checkly Kickstart Workshop, which will introduce you to synthetic monitoring and help you write your first Browser and API checks using the Checkly platform.…
High-frequency checks are now live!
We just released a big change on how often you can schedule your API and Browser checks. Together with our launching customer RMS [https://www.rmscloud.com/] — a leading property management solution — we looked at how we can catch hiccups and errors of mission-critical apps as early as possible and…
Synthetic transaction monitoring at scale with Terraform and Checkly
Managing large numbers of website monitoring checks by hand quickly becomes cumbersome. Luckily, Checkly's REST API [https://www.checklyhq.com/docs/api#checkly-api] allows us to automate most of the repetitive steps. Building on that API, the Checkly Terraform Provider [https://registry.terraform.io/providers/checkly/checkly/latest] takes automation…
How we monitor Checkly's API and Web App (updated)
Update 29-06-2020 Opsgenie Integration Last 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…
Easy E2E testing & monitoring with Gatsby, Vercel, and GitHub
Exciting times ahead. With the Jamstack gaining momentum, the landscape around it is offering more and more tools to streamline developer workflows and free up time for actual development. A cutting edge solution in this interesting space is Vercel [https://vercel.com/], formerly known as ZEIT. In this blog post…
Dips and Wiggles: Monitoring Website Performance with Checkly, Prometheus and Grafana
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.…
Automate active monitoring with Terraform and Checkly
Update 28/10/2020 The Checkly Terraform Provider is now listed on the official Terraform Registry [https://registry.terraform.io/providers/checkly/checkly/latest]! We have updated the article to reflect the most recent changes. In this guest article John Arundel [https://bitfieldconsulting.com], consultant and author of Cloud Native…
Why I pick Heroku over AWS Lambda. But not always.
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: 1. Developer Experience trumps everything. 2. AWS Lambda is cheap. Up to a limit though. This impacts…
How I set up SSL with Let's Encrypt for my SaaS customers' dashboards
Update 14-08-2019: Greenlock is awesome but needs support. If you don't want to code this yourself consider donating $100 or so on their indiegogo page [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/greenlock-v3-easy-https-for-node-js--2#/] so they can ship Greenlock v3 and stay compatible with the Let's Encrypt API. Recently I pushed a long…