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
13 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?
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Datadog
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Pingdom
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Insomnia REST Client
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