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If you are using Prometheus for monitoring and the popular Grafana stack for dashboarding, you can expose Checkly’s core metrics on a dedicated, secured endpoint.

💡 Check out our blog post on using this integration with Prometheus and Grafana for some cool real-life applications.

Checkly exposes two types of metrics in a Prometheus-compatible format.

checkly_check_status reports if a check is passing or failing. 1 means the check is passing, 0 means the check is failing.
checkly_check_degraded_status reports if a check is degraded. 1 means the check is not-degraded, 0 means the check is degraded.
checkly_check_result reports the last collected response time for a check in a specific region. This means you get one checkly_check_result stanza for each region the check is configured to run in.

Each metric has the following labels:

check_name, the name of your check.
check_type, either api or browser.
tags, this check’s tags.

Here is an example:

# HELP checkly_check_status The status of the last check. 1 is passing, 0 is failing
# TYPE checkly_check_status gauge
checkly_check_status{check_name="Customer API",check_type="api",muted="false",activated="true" tags="alerts,public"} 1
checkly_check_status{check_name="Email login",check_type="browser",muted="false",activated="true" tags="auth,browser-checks,public"} 0
# HELP checkly_check_degraded_status The degraded status of the last check. 1 is not-degraded, 0 is degraded
# TYPE checkly_check_degraded_status gauge
checkly_check_degraded_status{check_name="Customer API",check_type="api",muted="false",activated="true" tags="alerts,public"} 0
checkly_check_degraded_status{check_name="Email login",check_type="browser",muted="false",activated="true" tags="auth,browser-checks,public"} 1
# HELP checkly_check_result The response time of the last check per region.
# TYPE checkly_check_result gauge
checkly_check_result{check_name="Customer API",check_type="api",region="ap-northeast-2",tags="alerts,public"} 1168
checkly_check_result{check_name="Customer API",check_type="api",region="ap-southeast-1",tags="alerts,public"} 932
checkly_check_result{check_name="Customer API",check_type="api",region="ca-central-1",tags="alerts,public"} 424
checkly_check_result{check_name="Customer API",check_type="api",region="eu-west-2",tags="alerts,public"} 138
checkly_check_result{check_name="Customer API",check_type="api",region="us-east-2",tags="alerts,public"} 432
checkly_check_result{check_name="Email login",check_type="browser",region="ap-south-1",tags="auth,browser-checks,public"} 10174

Notice that:

The check for “Email login” is failing.
The check for “Customer API” is degraded, but not failing.
The checkly_check_status metric has muted and activated labels, reflecting if a check is sending out alerts or is actually running.
The checkly_check_result metric has a region label.

Activating this integration is simple.

Navigate to the integrations tab on the account screen and click the ‘Create Prometheus endpoint’ button.
We directly create an endpoint for you and five your the URL and the required Bearer token.
Create a new job in your Prometheus prometheus.yml config and set up a scraping interval. We recommend an interval between 30 seconds and 60 seconds. Add the URL (divided into metrics_path, scheme and target) and bearer_token. Here is an example

# prometheus.yml
- job_name: 'checkly'
  scrape_interval: 30s
  metrics_path: '/accounts/993adb-8ac6-3432-9e80-cb43437bf263/prometheus/metrics'
  bearer_token: 'lSAYpOoLtdAa7ajasoNNS234'
  scheme: https
  static_configs:  
  - targets: ['api.checklyhq.com']

Now restart Prometheus and you should see metrics coming in.

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