Playwright serves as the foundation for Checkly’s synthetic Monitoring as Code. To get the most from Checkly, we put together a series of guides and examples to help you get started with Playwright.

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Getting Started

What is Playwright?

Get started with Microsoft’s Playwright for automation and user simulation.

Installing Playwright

Learn how to install Playwright and get started with your first script.

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Check our Playwright Tips YouTube channel

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Diving Deeper

Playwright is extremely powerful and serves a wide range of use cases. We have collected in-depth articles for important scenarios and challenging automation flows.

Navigating user interfaces

Learn about guidelines to write quality automation scripts.

Waits and timeouts

Learn how to automate realistic user scenarios from signup to checkout.

Authentication

Learn how to handle authentication in Playwright and reuse credentials.

Measuring page performance

Learn how you can use Playwright to measure page performance.

Debugging errors

Learn how to debug common errors and bugs in your Playwright scripts.

Request Interception

Learn how to control HTTP requests and responses.

Basic Selectors

Working with selectors is key for writing high quality scripts.