Checkly Detect provides global reliability infrastructure to help test and monitor applications and services for exceptional user experiences. By combining automated testing and monitoring, Checkly helps you identify issues across the entire SDLC; and most importantly, before they impact your users.

Uptime Monitoring

Monitor availability and response times across your website and infrastructure

Synthetic Monitoring

Proactively validate real user interactions with API, browser, and multistep checks

Testing

Run automated Playwright tests to validate functionality and user workflows before production

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Key Benefits

Identify problems before they impact users through proactive monitoring and testing across all application layers.
Monitor everything from basic uptime to complex user workflows with multiple monitoring types and global locations.
Track response times, availability percentages, and user experience metrics to optimize application performance.
Reduce manual testing overhead with automated checks that run continuously and provide immediate feedback.

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How Checkly Works

1

Add Monitors to your project

Start with the monitoring approach that best fits your immediate needs:
  • Create them inside the Checkly UI
  • Create them in your repository as constructs
2

Configure Locations, Frequency, and Alerting

Once Checks are created, you configure where you want to run them, how often they should run, and how you want to be alerted when they fail.
3

Run As Tests in CI/CD

Run them as tests in your CI/CD pipeline. This ensures they are run in production like any other test.
  • npx checkly test Runs all of your local checks in your project
  • npx checkly trigger Runs all of your active checks in your account
4

Deploy Your Checks For Production Monitoring

Once you are happy with your monitoring, you can deploy them to production.
  • npx checkly deploy Deploys all of your checks to production
  • Or just save your checks in the UI and they will start to run

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Reliability In Depth Strategy

Implement testing and monitoring across multiple layers. Layering all of these approaches provides a comprehensive view of your application’s reliability, from the infrastructure layer to the user experience layer. With Checkly, monitor everything from your homepage availability to the most complex user journeys in a single platform.

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Automated Testing

Run automated unit, integration, and end-to-end Tests to validate functionality and user workflows before production

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Uptime Monitoring

Monitor servers, databases, and network connectivity to ensure your applications are available and responsive

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API Synthetic Monitoring

Validate API endpoints and microservice communication

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Browser Synthetic Monitoring

Validate user journeys and interactions in a real browser environment

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Getting Started

Ready to start monitoring your applications? Choose the approach that best fits your current needs:

Create Your First Test

Begin with automated testing for development workflows

Create Your First Uptime Monitor

Set up basic availability monitoring for critical services

Create Your First Synthetic Check

Create comprehensive user experience validation
For maximum reliability, combine all three monitoring approaches. Start with one type and gradually expand your coverage to create a comprehensive monitoring strategy.