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Public Dashboards, Incident Management, and Our New Analytics API

Late last year we announced improvements to our public dashboards that included a revamped dashboard design that allowed users to see monitoring data in a more easily-digestible way, on any device. We improved performance across the board, and also introduced new incident management functionality—available for paid plans only—that allows users to more easily communicate scheduled maintenance notices and alert developers to minor and major incidents.

Announcing the General Availability of Playwright Test Support

Back in October of 2022 we unveiled the beta of @playwright/test. We’re now happy to announce that Playwright Test (PWT) is now generally available! We’ve worked hard to make Checkly the best way to run your Playwright tests, and we’ve also decided to make Playwright—which is experiencing a surge in usage and popularity— the default and recommended web testing framework to use with Checkly.

Checkly Introduces Monitoring as Code Workflow, Enabled By a New CLI, to Unite Testing and Monitoring

Checkly introduces monitoring as code workflow, enabled by a new CLI, to unite testing and monitoring. The company announced the general availability of Playwright Test and has selected Playwright as its preferred testing and monitoring framework. Company also unveils additional innovations including general availability of Playwright Test and selects Playwright as its preferred testing and monitoring framework

Using Playwright to Monitor Third-Party Resources That Could Impact User Experience

Today’s web consists of lots of 3rd party resources. Let it be your fonts, transformed and optimized media assets, or analytics and ad scripts, many sites out there include resources that they don’t own. Your website probably has a lot of those dependencies, too! And while implementing third-party resources has downsides for performance and you should self-host your assets when possible, sometimes relying on external files is unavoidable.

How Kizen Reduced Production Challenges While Saving 20% in Engineering Hours With Synthetic Monitoring

Using Checkly’s Playwright Test and GitHub sync integration helped Kizen optimize testing and monitoring workflows Kizen is a no-code, enterprise-grade Predictive Innovation Engine that enables sales, marketing, and operations teams to save time and drive higher revenues and profitability. Their product portfolio includes a flexible customer relationship manager (ƒCRM), operations cloud, automation engine, and a predictive data platform.

Running API and Browser Checks Using Terraform, AWS, and Checkly Private Locations

When adding new Checks in Checkly a number of locations are available to check your endpoints from multiple locations around the world. For most use cases this is more than enough to ensure your resources are online. However, these locations are outside of your network and are unable to check on resources deployed more securely inside your private network.

How 1Password Relies on Checkly for Secure System Health Monitoring for Thousands of Business Customers

1Password uses Checkly to provide transparent, advanced synthetic monitoring to 1Password SCIM bridge customers 1Password is a leader in human-centric security and privacy, with a solution that’s built from the ground up to enable anyone—no matter the level of technical proficiency—to navigate the digital world without fear or friction when logging in.

What is API Monitoring?

The increasing complexity of modern websites and web applications means that a dependency on Application Programming Interfaces—or APIs—is unavoidable. APIs are used throughout software to define interactions between different software applications. They are also indispensable to businesses as they enable them to develop applications that can scale and provide a wealth of services without the need to build every software or server component from scratch.