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By Sara Miteva
The cloud changed how businesses work, making things more flexible and adaptable. But keeping track of app performance from a user’s point of view in this new setup is tough. Legacy tools tend to not give developers an understanding of their users' perspective. That's where synthetic monitoring comes in. It's a strong way to focus on users and fix the problems that legacy tools miss.
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By Stefan Judis
Table of contents Frankly, end-to-end testing and synthetic monitoring are challenging in today’s JavaScript-heavy world. There’s so much asynchronous JavaScript code running in modern applications that getting tests stable can be a real headscratcher. That’s why many teams rely on testing mission-critical features and treat “testing the rest” as a nice to have. It’s a typical cost-effort decision.
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By Sara Miteva
If you’re into monitoring, Prometheus is probably an essential part of your stack. Thanks to its expressive query language (PromQL), scalability, and configurable data format, it remains one of the most popular tools for data collection. Paired with Prometheus exporters, the tool can adapt to a variety of surroundings, which is one of its strongest points.
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By Stefan Judis
A spicy article hit my inbox the other day. It came with a bold claim — “API testing is better than UI testing”. Absolutes like “A is better than B” rarely hold in the software world. “It depends” is the answer to most tech questions for a reason. Let’s compare API and UI testing and discuss why one isn’t better than the other. The frenemies are “just different”, and always will be. And that’s a good thing.
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By Checkly
Checkly announced its inclusion in the 2023 Gartner Cool Vendors Report, Gartner Cool Vendors in Monitoring and Observability. Following Recent Inclusion in Two Gartner Hype Cycles, the Third Recognition Affirms Checkly as an Innovation Leader in Monitoring as Code. Checkly provides synthetic monitoring as code that offers a faster, integrated and more scalable approach to API and browser digital experience monitoring. This enables a unified process to be followed through the entire software development life cycle, from test through staging and continuous monitoring production environments.
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By Checkly
Checkly, the leading Monitoring as Code provider, expanded its platform's monitoring capabilities with the introduction of Heartbeat Checks, also known as CRON monitoring or dead man's switches. Also introduced today, Smart Retries is designed to reduce alert fatigue.
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By Rikard Nilsson
Today’s a big day at Checkly; we’re thrilled to announce that next to Browser and API checks we released a brand new check type to monitor your apps — say “Hello” to Heartbeat checks! In the realm of software, ensuring uninterrupted functionality is critical. While synthetic monitoring helps you discover user-facing problems early, keeping a close eye on the signals coming from your backend can be just as vital.
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By Checkly
Checkly, the leading provider of monitoring solutions powered by a Monitoring as Code (MaC) workflow, has unveiled two groundbreaking features: the Activity Log and Code Exporter. These innovative features not only enhance transparency and simplify the adoption of MaC practices but also mark a significant step forward in Checkly's commitment to advancing the MaC movement, offering users an end-to-end workflow that integrates seamlessly with modern software development practices.
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By Tim Nolet
When we launched the Checkly CLI and Test Sessions last May, I wrote about the three pillars of monitoring as code. Code — write your monitoring checks as code and store them in version control. Test — test your checks against our global infrastructure and record test sessions. Deploy — deploy your checks from your local machine or CI to run them as monitors.
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By Stefan Judis
With Infrastructure as Code and service-oriented development, a modern web app can consist of countless moving parts developed by multiple development and DevOps teams. When establishing a high-velocity development environment, the main question is, "How can you guarantee a stellar end-user experience when lots of engineers are constantly pushing and deploying code?" Solid, easy-to-write, and clearly defined monitoring practices are the only answer to this question.
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By Checkly
Learn in this video how to use environment variables with the Checkly CLI and your Monitoring as Code workflow.
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By Checkly
Learn in this video how you can leverage Playwright's fixture to track Frontend JavaScript exceptions and fail your tests when there are errors in a page.
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By Checkly
Learn how you can implement heartbeat monitoring of your scheduled server actions with Checkly.
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By Checkly
Synthetic monitoring enables developers to simulate real user interactions to validate an application's performance and correctness. Checkly's Monitoring as Code offers a unique synthetic monitoring solution that enables you to control and automate your entire monitoring infrastructure in a single workflow.
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By Checkly
Learn how to use Playwright's "toPass" method to create auto-repeating and asynchronous assertions.
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By Checkly
Learn how the new Checkly features (code exporter and activity log) enable you to integrate Monitoring as Code into your Software Development Lifecycle. Define and debug your monitoring resources during development, test your preview deployments and start monitoring productions with ease.
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By Checkly
Learn in this video how to use Playwright Test's test timeout feature to notice web performance regressions and how synthetic monitoring helps to avoid performance regressions over time.
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By Checkly
Learn in this video how to record and test your Checkly monitoring setup on the command line. Run API and Playwright tests and access your CI/CD results in your tailored dashboards.
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By Checkly
Unite end-to-end testing and monitoring in one developer-focused monitoring as code workflow. The Checkly CLI enables you to code, test, and deploy your testing and synthetic monitoring setup like never before.
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Downtime caused by API performance has serious business impact. Use Checkly's deep but easy to use API monitoring solution to check your mobile, webapp or IoT API for performance, uptime and correctness.
Checkly is the easiest way to monitor your API's and Browser click flows from a single dashboard. Use a powerful assertions engine to check all your (mobile) API's for timeliness and correctness. Use javascript to check your most crucial browser transactions. Built specifically for developers and ops teams.
We run your checks from multiple global data centers and alert you when things go south with SMS, Pagerduty etc. Add team mates, call checks from your CI/CD pipeline and publish a status page under a custom domain. We also do SSL expiry checks!
Features at a glance:
- No more broken APIs: Make sure your API is always responds quickly and with the correct payload. Get started quickly with our Swagger or cURL importer and super easy API monitor creator.
- No more broken shopping carts: Monitor and validate your most crucial site transactions like logins, shopping carts and onboarding flows. Take screenshots to get instant insights into what's working and what's not.
- Alerting without limits: Keep your team up to date with a generous helping of SMS messages and unlimited email, Pagerduty, Slack and web hook notifications. Control exactly how, when and how often you get alerted. Of course, "double-checking" is enabled by default to never get false positives.
- Insights without limits: Doing a root cause without complete and accurate data is insane. But too much detail can also be distracting. That's why next to calculating aggregates to keep an overview, Checkly stores each and every raw result for you and your team to dive into.
A better way to monitor your APIs and site click flows.