Checkly vs Skylight

Overview

Skylight

Stacks105

Followers69

Votes51

Checkly

Stacks27

Followers17

Votes0

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Skylight	Checkly
Skylight is a smart profiler for your Rails apps that visualizes request performance across all of your servers.	Checkly is the API & E2E monitoring platform for the modern stack: programmable, flexible and loving JavaScript. Free for developers!
Skylight looks at how your code is behaving in production, alerting you to improvements you can make before they become showstoppers.;Skylight tells you exactly how your app is spending its time where it matters most—in your production environment;Pricing starts at $20 for the first million requests, with automatic discounts for high-volume customers;Skylight is built with badass hipster tech: Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, Rust, Storm, Dropwizard, Kafka, Cassandra, and more.	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
Statistics
Stacks 105	Stacks 27
Followers 69	Followers 17
Votes 51	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 11 Beautiful UI 8 Sort by 'agony' - lists low hanging fruit fixes 8 Made by ember.js and rails core team members 7 Actionable analytics with concrete numbers 6 Free tier Cons 1 Comparing different timeframes is difficult	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	Prometheus Slack Node.js GitHub PagerDuty Terraform GitLab Playwright Discord Puppeteer

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