Checkly Kick-Start: Writing your first site monitor

Checkly Kick-Start: Writing your first site monitor

Jul 23, 2024

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