What are Locations?
Think of Locations as your monitoring outposts distributed around the globe. Each Location represents a geographic point where Checkly can execute your Checks, simulating the experience of users in that region. This geographic distribution is crucial because it reveals how your application performs for users regardless of where they’re accessing it from. You can select one or more data center locations to run your checks from. We advise to always select at least 2 locations. There are two reasons for this: Redundancy: we might have an issue in one location, but not the other. Retrying: if your check fails, we will execute its retry strategy where you have the option check from a different location.Public Locations
You can configure your run checks to run from an ever growing amount of global locations. Leveraging global infrastructure allows us to measure what the user experience is in different parts of the world. Current Locations in Checkly are| Americas | Europe/Middle East/Africa | Asia Pacific |
|---|---|---|
| North Virginia (us-east-1) | Ireland (eu-west-1) | Singapore (ap-southeast-1) |
| Ohio (us-east-2) | Frankfurt (eu-central-1) | Tokyo (ap-northeast-1) |
| North California (us-west-1) | London (eu-west-2) | Osaka (ap-northeast-3) |
| Oregon (us-west-2) | Paris (eu-west-3) | Hong Kong (ap-east-1) |
| Montreal (ca-central-1) | Stockholm (eu-north-1) | Sydney (ap-southeast-2) |
| São Paulo (sa-east-1) | Milan (eu-south-1) | Seoul (ap-northeast-2) |
| Bahrain (me-south-1) | Mumbai (ap-south-1) | |
| Cape Town (af-south-1) | Jakarta (ap-southeast-3) |
Private Locations
Private Locations extend this concept to your own infrastructure. A Private Location is a monitoring location that you manage by simply deploying a lightweight Checkly Agent. Running a check from a Private Location allows you to monitor internal systems and test the performance and reliability of applications and APIs that are only accessible from within your network.Learn more about private locations to monitor your private and segregated applications and APIs.