Checkly

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about Checkly is its "monitoring-as-code" approach, which fits perfectly into modern CI/CD workflows. The ability to write API and browser checks in JavaScript/TypeScript using Playwright, commit them to Git, and run them globally is a game-changer. It feels like an extension of your development process—not a separate tool you have to babysit.

The integration with Playwright is especially powerful—it allows for deep browser-based testing with rich artifacts like screenshots, traces, and console logs. Checkly also makes alerting simple and flexible with Slack, email, and webhook support, so you always know when something breaks.

What do you dislike about the product?

While Checkly is powerful, there are a few areas where it could improve. The pricing tiers can feel a bit rigid—especially for growing teams that fall between the limits of Starter and Team plans. More flexible or usage-based billing would be helpful.

Also, while the Playwright integration is great, the learning curve can be steep for teams new to writing tests in code. Some advanced features could use more in-depth documentation or examples.

Lastly, data residency options are limited. For teams with strict compliance needs (especially in the EU), having more control over where monitoring data is stored would be a big plus.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The result is faster issue detection, better visibility into production performance, and higher confidence in deploymentsall with less manual effort.

What do you like best about the product?

I integrated some api with Checkly. One thing I like about Checkly is that they send alerts directly to your mobile through sms if our build fails. And they are giving us the option to hit api from a different location, so we can verify how much time our api will take.

What do you dislike about the product?

If there are any complex api, or chaning scenarios or negative scenarios there we have to write everything in code in dashboard we dont have support.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Api is hitting from different location and schedule from dashboard, that was helpfull.

What do you like best about the product?

it is quite easy to use, userfriendly ui

What do you dislike about the product?

honestly nothing, maybe the requested feature could be delivered faster

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Alerting us if something is wrong with webpage

What do you like best about the product?

It's so easy to set up, categorise, integrate with e.g. Slack, etc, fast customer support.

What do you dislike about the product?

No real downsides that I've found! Perhaps I wish the status page was available on the Team plan - but the public dashboard suffices for us anyways. We're very happy with it!

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Checkly gives us confidence that our APIs are up and working smoothly from across the globe.

What do you like best about the product?

It starts off friendly, especially with the free tier. But once you scale up more checks, shorter intervals teams the price can grow fast. If you're a solo dev or early-stage project, it feels like you're being charged for every breath your app takes.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some parts of the docs feel half-explained, especially when you're diving into more advanced stuff like alerting logic or integrating with custom setups. I had to piece things together by trial and error sometimes, and that's always annoying.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Yes kinda ya