Snapshot
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- Checkly is a SaaS platform for synthetic and uptime monitoring: it runs scripted checks against websites, APIs, and network endpoints from global locations and alerts teams when something fails.
More detail
- Monitors are written as code in JavaScript/TypeScript, Terraform, or Pulumi, or generated through AI agents, and the platform bundles alerting, status pages, OpenTelemetry tracing, and AI-assisted root-cause analysis.
- Best for
- DevOps and SRE teams that want programmable, code-first monitoring embedded in IaC/GitOps workflows, and engineering teams already using Playwright who want the same tests to run as production monitors.
- Pricing
- Subscription SaaS with tiered plans billed monthly or annually (annual saves up to 20%).
More detail
- Hobby is $0/month with 10 uptime monitors, 1,000 browser runs, 10,000 API runs, 6 locations, and a 2-minute minimum frequency.
- Starter is $24/month (annual) with 50 monitors, 3,000 browser runs, 25,000 API runs,
- Main limitation
- Non-technical users who need a no-code monitoring setup, and teams looking for in-process APM or deep infrastructure profiling rather than external synthetic checks.
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About
- Checkly is a SaaS platform for synthetic and uptime monitoring: it runs scripted checks against websites, APIs, and network endpoints from global locations and alerts teams when something fails.
- Monitors are written as code in JavaScript/TypeScript, Terraform, or Pulumi, or generated through AI agents, and the platform bundles alerting, status pages, OpenTelemetry tracing, and AI-assisted root-cause analysis.
What it helps with
- Coverage gaps when AI agents ship code faster than teams can manually create monitors
- Alert noise and false positives from transient failures, including repeated 2 AM pages
- Slow root-cause analysis when a check fails without linked traces or context
- Legacy monitoring workflows that are not code-first or suited to modern DevOps stacks
- Lack of visibility into real user flows and API workflows before customers are impacted
- Manual, disconnected incident communication across status pages and alert channels
Capabilities
A practical view of what is available and where limitations apply.
| Offering | Available | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Uptime monitoring protocols | Yes | HTTPS, TCP, DNS, ICMP, SSL/TLS, gRPC, Traceroute, and Heartbeat monitoring. |
| Playwright browser checks | Yes | Simulate real user interactions with Playwright; core web vitals are scored on visited pages without test changes. |
| Monitoring as code | Yes | JS/TS constructs via the Checkly CLI, plus Terraform and Pulumi providers. |
| AI agent / MCP integration | Yes | Connects to Claude, Cursor, Codex, and other MCP clients; write commands return exit code 2 for confirmation. |
| Smart alerting | Yes | Slack, PagerDuty, email, SMS (Starter+), and webhooks; retries from a second region and pages once per incident. |
| Status pages | Yes | Branded component-based status pages with automation rules and email/RSS/Atom/Slack subscribers. |
| Distributed tracing | Yes | OpenTelemetry integration links failed check runs to the underlying trace. |
| AI root-cause analysis (Rocky AI) | Limited | Described as Beta; analyzes failed runs and proposes selector fixes. |
| Private locations | Limited | Available on Team and Enterprise plans only; not on Hobby or Starter. |
| In-process APM / agent-based profiling | No | Checkly is external synthetic black-box monitoring with no access to application source code. |
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- checklyhq.com
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