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What is Checkly?

Checkly allows engineers to write their E2E monitors as they write their cloud-native application, as code. Powered by the Checkly CLI, engineers code, test, and deploy API and Playwright-based checks from their code repository. Checkly's programmable Monitoring as Code (MaC) workflow seamlessly integrates with modern development practices, tools, and frameworks, at a fraction of the cost of legacy testing and monitoring solutions. The end result? Detecting issues faster, reducing response times, and shipping code faster with more confidence, resulting in increased efficiency and cost reduction of up to 80% compared to legacy solutions. Founded in 2018, Checkly is a remote-first company, with strong roots in Berlin.

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Monitor the performance and correctness of your API endpoints & vital site transactions from a single, simple dashboard.


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Checkly
Year Founded
2018
HQ Location
Berlin
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2,346 Twitter followers
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47 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Build and run synthetic monitoring that scales. Monitoring as code workflow for developers: programmable, fast, reliable. Checkly delivers advanced synthetic monitoring of API and web apps, with programmable monitoring-as-code workflows providing visibility at speed and scale in a developer-first platform.With Checkly, developers can identify bugs early and reduce downtime in production. Checkly is easy to get started with and seamlessly integrates into the modern development workflow. As of June
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3, Checkly has completed over 5 billion API and browser checks for more than 800 customers. Among them are modern technology firms such as Vercel, 1Password, Scale, Humio, and large organizations like Europe’s largest retailer.Founded in
018, Checkly is a remote-first company with strong roots in Berlin and backed by global venture capital firm CRV and Accel.


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Christopher P.
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Christopher P.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Reliable Monitoring for All My Web Applications"
I love Checkly’s real-time alerts and the ease of setting up complex synthetic tests. It has simplified monitoring for my team's applications, and ...
Alessio R.
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Alessio R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Effective monitoring, lots of integrations, pricing could be more flexible"
Checkly makes it easy for our devevelopers to setup monitoring and testing, and it's extremely handy to be able to use Playwright for browser check...
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5.0 out of 5
"All-in-one monitoring"
Checkly is our default tool for any monitoring task. Its ease of use, flexibility, and feature breadth make it the perfect tool for all kinds of mo...
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Checkly Demo - Checkly Dashboard
One dashboard gives instant insight into your app and service health
Checkly Demo - Private and Public Locations
Set up your private check location or choose one of our 20 public endpoints
Checkly Demo - Browser Check Overview
In-depth results for browser monitoring
Checkly Demo - API check overview
In-depth results for API monitoring
Checkly Demo - Heartbeat Checks
Configure heartbeat checks to monitor your scheduled jobs
Checkly Demo - Performance Metrics
Detailed performance metrics for all your checks.
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Alessio R.
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What do you like best about Checkly?

Checkly makes it easy for our devevelopers to setup monitoring and testing, and it's extremely handy to be able to use Playwright for browser checks and monitoring as code, which fits perfectly into our CI/CD workflow. The dashboard is easy to use and setting up checks for APIs or frontend is quick. The integrations with tools like Terraform are also helpful, as they let us automate monitoring with infrastructure change. Customer support was great everytime I had to interact with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkly?

The pricing model could use a bit more flexibility, as there aren’t enough options between the plans, which is quite limiting as our usage falls between tiers. I’d appreciate smaller steps or customizable, pay as you go plans. Right now, we either pay for more than you need or hit limits quickly.

Finally, I would like to be able to choose data storage areas, being based in the EU. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Checkly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Checkly helps us monitor critical user flows and API endpoints with just one tool. With the combination of testing and monitoring we often catch issues (eg slow responses, login problems) early, which saves us time and headaches and integrates smoothly into our workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sayoan O.
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What do you like best about Checkly?

Checkly is extremely versatile and complete, with it the quality team can actively support Shift Right Testing through automated scripts being executed recurrently. A modern tool for API monitoring and front-end testing that combines the best of both worlds: test automation with Playwright in addition to continuous API monitoring. It allows testing applications easily and efficiently, with quick alerts via Slack, email, Opsgenie, and more. With test execution from different global regions, it is perfect for ensuring everything works well for users anywhere. The direct integration with CI/CD pipelines and an intuitive interface make Checkly a practical choice for development teams that value stability and performance.

Now we can post-deploy in production have an execution ensuring feature availability, our best experience is coding and managing automated web tests with Playwright. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkly?

I would like an integration with Gitlab as a code repository, even though we have code snippets in some cases it is not possible to approach it this way, generating code duplication.

Looking for something through the page object model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Checkly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Availability of features. Here at frete.com, we use it to test micro journeys, thus ensuring that third parties (marketing) or even deployments from our team do not impact the final experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christopher P.
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What do you like best about Checkly?

I love Checkly’s real-time alerts and the ease of setting up complex synthetic tests. It has simplified monitoring for my team's applications, and the intuitive dashboard helps us stay on top of performance issues effortlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkly?

Sometimes, the integration with certain third-party services can be tricky. I’d also appreciate a more customizable alert system, especially for handling non-critical incidents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Checkly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before Checkly, we faced frequent downtime issues that took hours to identify and resolve. Now, our team gets immediate alerts, enabling us to take action within minutes, which has significantly improved our service reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Geir Arne B.
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What do you like best about Checkly?

Rock solid, developer friendliness and forward looking product developent, especially the advances in "monitoring as code" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkly?

The dashboard/status page and incident /planned maintenance functionality could be more feature rich, to provide better communication to end users during downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Checkly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Monitoring of our web sites and end-to-end functionality in production environment, running on fully independent infrastructure.

We have close to zero false alarms, so Checkly monitoring gives us a very very good picture of how real and users are experiencing our sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Checkly?

I like that Playwright is very easy to understand and that I can build and deploy checks in code and deploy via our pipelines. Gives a great audit trail for all changes and allows easy rollbacks if we mess up a test. it didn't take us long to deploy and start working from code as well

The UI for the most part is sleek and allowing filtering on tags allows us to organise our tests accordingly.

Customer support has been great so far, we have used slack for most of our communication with them but will occassionally have service calls with them.

Checkly is used daily within my team and we've even adopted using the synthetic monitoring to power our Statuspage via PagerDuty.

Checkly are very open to feedback we've found so far especially around suggesting new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkly?

Some elements of the UI could see some improvement, specifically for me around clicking into errors. I would also prefer it if we could see a video of the last successful test run before a failure for additional context. We have raised this and I believe it is being worked on.

My other biggest gripe is reporting, however this scenario is likely limited to how we as a team operate. Currently we can only get 4 hours worth of reporting though we have some custom scripts that allow us to pull 24h worth of data for our morning report as we like to discuss test failures in our daily morning meetings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Checkly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Synthetic monitoring to simulate user journies on our website as well as checking our APIs are up and running, as well as recently powering our statuspage to report any downtime in our API suite. It is one tool in our plethora of monitoring we use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amer A.
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What do you like best about Checkly?

I love how easy it is to set up and manage end-to-end tests, good documentation and great communication with users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkly?

Pricing can be somehow high for smaller teams or startups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Checkly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Automated browser checks simplify the testing process, saving time and effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shashank S.
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QA Specialist
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What do you like best about Checkly?

Checkly has given me so much free time to think about the actualy qa automation scenarios instead of worring and managing the runtime servers and reporters. It has revolutionalized monitoring for me and integrated it with playwright so qa can run their automation suits and monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkly?

nothing really. checkly has been literally a life saves for small teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Checkly solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Hosting my playwright automation suite

- Hosting my API automation suit

- Hosting my monitoring tests

- Keeping a well maintained UI to get historical and future trend analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Checkly?

Whenever, we push a code update to github. It runs the configured necessary test for the project health. It gets auto-configured & linked to our github account for continous monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkly?

While we're using checkly in all of our (4) next.js projects. We haven't got anything to dislike on it with our minimal use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Checkly solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps in downtime and runtime montioring of the site for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Checkly?

Checkly is our default tool for any monitoring task. Its ease of use, flexibility, and feature breadth make it the perfect tool for all kinds of monitoring (API endpoints, Web apps, CRON jobs execution, etc.). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkly?

Honestly, there isn't anything we can complain about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Checkly solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Unified tool to monitor various services uptime and latency (public, private, HTTP, cron jobs)

- Public Status page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wahid A.
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What do you like best about Checkly?

It is easy to implement and have clear documentation. Work well with the majority of platforms. It is integrated into my majority of projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkly?

It has its learning curve for adding advanced features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Checkly solving and how is that benefiting you?

It made my Devops easy and saved me lots of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.