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Checkly gives you code-first synthetic monitoring for modern DevOps. Monitor your APIs, service connectivity and apps at a fraction of the price of legacy providers. Powered by Monitoring as Code and Playwright.

Get started with monitoring as code

Get started with monitoring as code by picking the right integration for your team. We recommend using the Checkly CLI for the full code, test and deploy workflow.

Checkly CLI Checkly CLI

Code, test and deploy your monitoring configuration using a JavaScript/TypeScript-native workflow right from your code base.

Terraform Terraform

Manage and scale your complete monitoring configuration right from your code base with our official Hashicorp Terraform provider.

Get started using the web UI

Not quite ready to start your monitoring as code journey? No problem. Get started using just the web UI and you’ll be monitoring in minutes.

Create a Browser check Create a Browser check

Use TS / JS with @playwright/test and Headless browsers to navigate, screenshot and assert your key webapp flows.

Create an API check Create an API check

Monitor the latency and assert the correctness of your API endpoints. Use inline scripts and code to customize everything.

Create a Multistep check Create a Multistep check

Write Node.js scripts that run multiple API requests in sequence, with arbitrary code between requests and get all the data.

Create a TCP check Create a TCP check

Monitor the availability and performance of your TCP services by establishing TCP connections and verifying the response.

Create a Heartbeat check Create a Heartbeat check

Monitor your backup jobs, data imports, and other recurring jobs or scripts by pinging Checkly at a regular interval.

Set up alert channels Set up alert channels

Get notified about outages, broken transactions or slow downs in your webapps and APIs. Connect to one of our many integrations like Slack, Pagerduty and Discord.

Additional resources

Dashboards

Whip up a status page on your own domain or create an internal dashboard.

Private Locations

Run your Checks wherever you want: inside your firewall, VPC or K8S cluster.

Groups

Organize your checks and D.R.Y. up your code and configuration.
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Last updated on April 25, 2025. You can contribute to this documentation by editing this page on Github