Checkly

The active reliability platform for modern developers.

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Overview

Checkly is an API & E2E monitoring platform for the modern stack. It helps developers and DevOps teams to monitor their APIs and web applications by simulating user interactions with headless Chrome. Checkly allows you to create and run checks from multiple locations, get alerted when things break, and debug issues with detailed reports and screenshots.

✨ Key Features

  • API Monitoring
  • E2E Testing (with Playwright and Puppeteer)
  • Global monitoring locations
  • Alerting and notifications
  • Dashboards and reporting
  • CI/CD integration
  • Monitoring as Code

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Developer-friendly workflow (Monitoring as Code)
  • Combines API monitoring and E2E testing
  • Modern and easy-to-use interface

Unique Value: Checkly provides a simple and powerful way for developers to monitor their APIs and web applications, ensuring they are fast and reliable.

🎯 Use Cases (5)

API endpoint monitoring End-to-end testing of user flows Website performance and availability monitoring CI/CD pipeline integration for automated testing Monitoring of critical application transactions

✅ Best For

  • Synthetic monitoring for modern web applications
  • Automated E2E testing as part of the development workflow

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Infrastructure monitoring
  • Real user monitoring (RUM)

🏆 Alternatives

Runscope Postman Ghost Inspector

Checkly's focus on a developer-centric 'Monitoring as Code' workflow sets it apart from more traditional, UI-driven synthetic monitoring tools.

💻 Platforms

Web API

🔌 Integrations

Slack PagerDuty Opsgenie Datadog Prometheus GitHub Vercel

🛟 Support Options

  • ✓ Email Support
  • ✓ Live Chat
  • ✓ Dedicated Support (Business tier)

🔒 Compliance & Security

✓ SOC 2 ✓ GDPR ✓ SSO ✓ SOC 2 Type II ✓ GDPR

💰 Pricing

$7.00/mo
Free Tier Available

✓ 14-day free trial

Free tier: 50k API check runs, 5k browser check runs per month.

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