What is Checkly?
Checkly is the API & E2E monitoring platform for the modern stack: programmable, flexible and loving JavaScript. Free for developers!
Checkly is a tool in the Website Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Checkly is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Checkly's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Checkly?
Companies
12 companies reportedly use Checkly in their tech stacks, including Whyp, Parco APP, and Anique.
Developers
14 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Checkly.
Checkly Integrations
GitHub, Node.js, Slack, GitLab, and Terraform are some of the popular tools that integrate with Checkly. Here's a list of all 16 tools that integrate with Checkly.
Checkly's Features
- Deep & flexible uptime and performance monitoring for API's and Web Apps
- Full HTTP request editor for headers, params, body etc
- Environment variables, encrypted for secrets
- Basic Auth, OAuth 1.0, OAuth 2.0, HMAC support
- Flexible Node.js based setup & teardown scripts
- Site transaction monitoring - full scripting support with Puppeteer & Playwright
- Runs in actual Chrome browsers in the cloud
- Take screenshots and asserts page items
- Email, Slack, Webhooks, Pagerduty, OpsGenie, Discord and SMS notifcations
- Prometheus exporting
- Triggers checks from CI/CD
- SSL certificate expiry checks
- Public dashboards with custom CNAME domain
Checkly Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Checkly?
New Relic
The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Sentry
Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health.
Amazon CloudWatch
It helps you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. It retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs to help take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.
