Checkly Kick-Start: Writing your first site monitor
Join the Checkly community on Slack: https://www.checklyhq.com/slack/
Monitoring as Code Masterclass: https://www.checklyhq.com/blog/checkly-and-coralogix-webinar/
Join Nočnica Mellifera for the Checkly Kick-start. You'll learn:
How to get started and write your first page monitors — Anyone can monitor their site with Checkly, and you'll get a demonstration on getting started.
Best Practices for monitoring — From monitoring as code workflows to alert configurations based on your SLA, learn how experienced professionals use synthetic monitoring.
Advanced skills for automation — Ever wanted to check your site by comparing screenshots? Or create checks that simulate network slowdown? Learn how to simulate complex scenarios with Checkly and Playwright.
00:00 Introductions
00:30 Checkly Requirements
03:10 Playwright for automation
05:15 Writing our first site check
06:48 Playwright code generator
09:15 Configuring Checkly Monitors
19:15 Testing Steps with Playwright
23:10 Auto-waiting
26:10 API Checks
28:00 Degraded status and alert fatigue
30:00 Monitoring as code
32:50 Monitoring as code and GitHub actions
37:01 Visual regression monitoring
40:30 Checkly traces