# Learn How to Test, Monitor, and Automate with Playwright - Checkly Docs

> Learn more about Playwright automation & monitoring with Checkly. Explore how to automate your web with a reliable, programmable monitoring workflow.

Source: https://www.checklyhq.com/docs/learn/playwright/overview/

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- Getting Started
- Check our Playwright Tips YouTube channel
- Diving Deeper
- Popular Posts

# Learn How to Test, Monitor, and Automate with Playwright

Learn more about Playwright automation & monitoring with Checkly. Explore how to automate your web with a reliable, programmable monitoring workflow.

If you’re using Playwright for end-to-end testing, you should check out [Playwright Check Suites](https://www.checklyhq.com/docs/detect/synthetic-monitoring/playwright-checks/overview) and start testing in production.

Playwright serves as the foundation for Checkly’s synthetic [Monitoring as Code](https://www.checklyhq.com/docs/concepts/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.

## ​ 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.

## ​ Check our Playwright Tips YouTube channel

[The Checkly YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@ChecklyHQ) includes over a hundred videos covering synthetic monitoring, Monitoring as Code and Playwright automation. Check out our [Playwright Tips playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMZDRUOi3a8NtMq3PUS5iJc2pee38rurc) for bite-sized videos on Playwright best practices, tips and tricks.

## ​ 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.

## ​ Popular Posts

## 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.

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