Checkly Monitor
Checkly is an application reliability platform that helps engineering and SRE teams proactively detect, communicate, and resolve issues across their applications.
Our verdict
Who it's for
Unify testing, monitoring, and observability with an AI-native workflow for application reliability.
Who should look elsewhere
Requires coding knowledge for advanced monitoring as code features.
Pros
- +Reduces observability costs by consolidating tools.
- +Accelerates developer velocity by shifting reliability left.
- +Improves incident response time with contextual alerts and automated communication.
- +Offers flexible and scalable monitoring through a code-based approach.
- +Provides deep insights with full-stack traces and AI-powered analysis.
Cons
- −Requires coding knowledge for advanced monitoring as code features.
- −Reliance on Playwright might be a learning curve for teams unfamiliar with it.
Key features
- ✓Uptime Monitoring (URLs, TCP ports, DNS, database backups, heartbeats)
- ✓Synthetic Monitoring (Playwright-based user flow and API testing)
- ✓Monitoring as Code (CLI, Terraform, Pulumi, JavaScript/TypeScript)
- ✓Smart Alerting (Slack, PagerDuty, email, custom thresholds, retry logic)
- ✓Automated Status Pages
- ✓OpenTelemetry Traces for full-stack visibility
- ✓Rocky AI for Root Cause Analysis
- ✓Global monitoring locations (22+ data centers)
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | $0 | month | 10 Uptime Monitors; 2 Min. Maximum Frequency; 4 Locations |
| Starter | $24 | month | 50 Uptime Monitors; 1 Min. Maximum Frequency; 4 Locations |
| Team | $64 | month | 75 Uptime Monitors; 30 Sec. Maximum Frequency; 22 Locations |
| Enterprise | — | month | Custom Uptime Monitors; 1 Sec. Maximum Frequency; 22 Locations |
Integrations
Slack