What’s New in Checkly Launch Week 2

Welcome to the New Era of Monitoring

The Checkly team is continually working to improve our platform to meet—and exceed—the current and future monitoring needs of our customers, and we’re thrilled to share another batch of new product features and enhancements during Checkly Launch Week 2.

News Release: Checkly Introduces Monitoring as Code Workflow, Enabled By a New CLI, to Unite Testing and Monitoring

From February 27th through March 2nd we’ll be announcing and discussing a number of new Checkly innovations, including setting the monitoring as code (MaC) standard with an all-new workflow—enabled by a powerful new CLI—that will enhance the monitoring experience for you and your users.

Checkly Head of Developer Relations Stefan Judis (@stefanjudis)—along with members of the Checkly engineering team—will be walking you through those new features with live video chats on the Checkly YouTube channel on every day of Launch Week 2.

Read on for some brief highlights of what you can expect to see this week.

Monday, February 27th: New Monitoring as Code Workflow and CLI

The biggest news of Launch Week 2 is that we’re introducing a revolutionary new MaC workflow—and a new beta CLI that enables it—that will allow developers, platform engineers, and SREs to code, test, and deploy their testing and synthetic monitoring in one seamless workflow.

This new MaC workflow fully harnesses the power of Playwright for browser checks, and allows developers to store all resources in a Git repo, alongside their existing application code. The new Checkly MaC CLI also allows developers to code and structure resources using TypeScript. We think our new MaC approach will reset the rules of synthetic monitoring, and we’d encourage you to try out the new Checkly CLI today.

For more information, Checkly CTO/CPO and Co-Founder Tim Nolet has written up a blog post that serves up a deeper dive on MaC and our new CLI and highlights our long history with MaC, synthetic monitoring, and where we’re headed in the future with our new MaC workflow and the CLI that enables it.

"We chose Checkly because of its ability to leverage end-to-end tests written in Playwright for our synthetic monitoring needs. Checkly CLI has enhanced our engineering team's ability to quickly build, validate and deploy an entire suite of checks from their local development environment. Checkly's UI was already an amazingly easy to use interface, but CLI has made the concept of monitoring as code a reality in our environment.”—Tavares Chambless, Manager, Quality Assurance, Loyal Health

Want to learn more? Bookmark this overview post for more information on all of our Checkly Launch Week 2 announcements, as I’ll be updating this post throughout the week. Be sure to visit our Launch Week 2 YouTube playlist, and enter your monitoring as code project for a chance to win our $500 home makeover giveaway. And don’t forget to join the Checkly Slack community to engage with your peers and Checkly engineers.

Tuesday, February 28th: Playwright Test Hits GA

We’ve already said a bit about our Playwright Test runner in Checkly Launch Week 1, but we’re happy to announce that Playwright Test is now generally available!

Playwright is now the default and recommended testing and monitoring framework to use with Checkly. This release also adds a new UI that includes screenshots, videos, traces, test steps, and error logs, which are all super useful for debugging when monitoring detects an issue.

“We have saved a lot of time —about a 20% time savings—by using Playwright on Checkly. We have a ton of team knowledge on how to use Playwright, so being able to spin up our first checks within just a minute or two, since the code was already written, was extremely useful and saved us a lot of time.”—Keegan Donley, Senior Front-End Engineer at Kizen.

For more information on the GA of Playwright Test runner, Checkly software engineering team lead Jan Grzesik has written a detailed blog post that provides more details on the release.

Wednesday, March 1st: Dashboards, Incidents, and Analytics

Updates to our public dashboards allow more users to brand and personalize the look and feel of their dashboards using custom CSS rules and to configure custom subdomains. These new dashboards have also been redesigned with an eye on improved readability and accessibility, to make your monitoring information even easier to access and consume by your stakeholders.

We’ve also developed a new analytics API that gives users more freedom to generate reports for business needs. Users can now integrate Checkly data into 3rd party BI platforms like Microsoft PowerBI, Google Data Studio, Grafana, and more.

"We have recently moved our external synthetic monitoring to Checkly. We're thrilled to partner with them and leverage their services to enhance our own internal platform capabilities."—Dave Whyte, Operations Lead, AutoTrader UK

For more information on our updated public dashboards and our new analytics API, check out this blog post for more details on the release.

Thursday, March 2nd: SOC 2 Type 2

We’ve always had a strong commitment to customer privacy, security, and data protection. We successfully completed our (System and Organization Controls) SOC 2 Type 1 examination last year, and we’re happy to announce that Checkly has successfully completed our SOC 2 Type 2 examination. SOC 2 is widely recognized as one of the most important and rigorous compliance standards related to managing customer data, and we’re delighted to be SOC 2 Type 2 compliant!

For more information on the successful completion of our SOC 2 Type 2 examination, check out this detailed blog post by Director of Engineering Daniel Paulus.

Want to learn more? Bookmark this overview post for more information on all of our Checkly Launch Week 2 announcements, as I’ll be updating this post throughout the week. And don’t forget to visit our Launch Week 2 YouTube playlist for additional updates.