Playwright Monitoring

Your Playwright tests are already monitors

The exact @playwright/test spec that runs green in CI can run every minute from 20+ regions as a production monitor. Same file, two jobs. No rewrite, no recorder, no second suite to maintain.

Runs standard Playwright at the latest version. No credit card required.

e2e/checkout.spec.ts
test('checkout completes', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('https://acme.shop')
await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Buy now' }).click()
await expect(page.getByText('Order confirmed')).toBeVisible()
})
CI · pull requestnpx playwright test
8 passed· 12s

proves the code shipped

Checkly · every 1m5 regions
checkout-flow· 200 · 1.24s

proves users can still buy

Trusted by engineering teams that run Playwright in production

Vercel
CrowdStrike
1Password
ServiceNow
Fanatics
Mistral
GoFundMe
Hopper
Fastly
Total Wine
Airbus
Carhartt
“We've saved a lot of time by using Playwright with Checkly.”

It only took me a few minutes to get a login check working and determine if we could log in and validate that the CDN was up.

Keegan Donley
Keegan Donley
Senior Front-End Engineer, Kizen

Not another synthetic tool. The same Playwright.

Most monitoring tools ask you to rebuild your flows in their recorder or their DSL. Checkly runs the tests you already wrote, and turns them into the coverage CI never gave you.

@playwright/test

Real Playwright, unchanged

Checkly runs standard @playwright/test at the latest version, from your own playwright.config.ts. No proprietary recorder, no vendor DSL, no fork that lags months behind the framework you already use.

ci → production

CI green is not production reliable

A passing pipeline proves the build shipped. It says nothing about whether a user in Sydney can check out right now. The same spec, run continuously from real regions, is what closes that gap.

monitoring as code

One suite, versioned in git

Your monitors are PlaywrightCheck constructs in the same repo, reviewed in pull requests and deployed from CI. No second test suite to maintain, no dashboard settings drifting out of sync.

You could run Playwright on a cron. Until you can't.

A scheduled CI job runs the tests. Everything that makes those runs trustworthy in production, you build and maintain yourself. Here is where that gets expensive.

Reuse your existing specs

Playwright + cron
Runs the files, but you own the runner
Checkly
Point at playwright.config.ts, promote tagged specs

Run from real user regions

Playwright + cron
One CI runner, one location
Checkly
20+ global locations, or your private ones

Retries that absorb flake

Playwright + cron
A blip pages you or hides a real failure
Checkly
Cross-region retries before anyone is paged

Alerting to on-call

Playwright + cron
You wire up Slack and PagerDuty by hand
Checkly
Slack, PagerDuty, SMS, phone, 18+ channels

History and dashboards

Playwright + cron
Logs scroll away after each run
Checkly
Every run stored, trends and dashboards built in

Root cause on failure

Playwright + cron
Re-run locally and read stack traces yourself
Checkly
Traces plus Rocky AI root-cause on every failure

Ship your first monitor in an afternoon

Point Checkly at your Playwright config, tag a spec, and deploy. The tests you already trust in CI become the production coverage you have been missing.