Checkly Pros and Cons

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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