Learn how Solutia Consulting relied on Checkly to confidently deploy client software updates Solutia Consulting is an information technology consulting firm based in Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota. Solutia provides assessment and advisory services, dev team staff augmentation, managed IT services, and project-based contract work for a variety of clients, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to mid-sized enterprises and organizations.

Testing applications behind a login flow is cumbersome. And it gets even worse when there’s two-factor authentication (2FA) involved. Many people work around this problem by disabling it or implementing wild hacks. Automating a 2FA-based login flow is just too hard! I thought that for a long time, too. But I must admit — I was wrong.

Learn how Locus uses advanced synthetic monitoring from Checkly to ensure the reliability of its Dispatch Management Platform Locus.sh is a leading-edge technology company solving one of the most challenging global supply chain problems: last-mile logistics. Locus' order-to-delivery dispatch management platform helps enterprises transform their last-mile logistics operations into growth centers.

Over the last few years, many customers have asked us to update our current public dashboards with new features so they can more effectively communicate what is happening with their checks to external customers or internal users. We’ve taken that input to heart, and we’re pleased to announce the availability of redesigned dashboards for Checkly.

You build it; you own it! It’s a simple mantra that has driven software development for years. The days of writing software and throwing it over the wall to operations teams are over. Instead, software development teams take ownership of what they do and own their own software operations. There is just one problem: Monitoring tools have not yet adopted the developer workflow. As a developer, the repository is the center of the workflow. It's the one single source of truth.

The holiday shopping season is one of the most stressful periods for operators of retail and ecommerce businesses, as the seasonal surge of holiday shoppers can put massive amounts of stress and strain on even the most well-architected websites. Here’s a recent example from 2021: The Office Depot website suffered an outage during Cyber Monday that knocked the online shop offline for hours, impacting the ability of customers to place orders online.

I joined Checkly a few months ago, and because our platform enables you to use Microsoft’s Playwright to run your synthetic monitoring, I started getting my hands dirty with the end-to-end testing framework. I’m a massive fan of learning in public, so I started publishing weekly Playwright tips on YouTube. Did you miss a few videos? Don’t sweat it! Here’s the first collection of Playwright tricks I discovered over the last few months.

You can now use Checkly to monitor API endpoints secured with TLS Client Certificates. This post dives into why and how you would use client certificates and mTLS (Mutual TLS) in your API infrastructure. Let's go!

Checkly private locations enable you to run browser and API checks from within your own infrastructure. This requires one or more Checkly agents installed in your environment where they can reach your applications and our Checkly management API. You need to ensure you have enough agents installed in order to run the number of checks configured in the location. We have a guide to planning for redundancy and scaling in our documentation.

Welcome to the last day of our first Checkly Launch Week! We already talked about security, our new Playwright test runner and alert enhancements. Today, I’m delighted to announce that GitHub Sync is going into general availability (GA)! This post goes into the following topics.