Uptime / synthetic
Checkly
Checkly GmbH
Developer-first synthetic monitoring built around Playwright — write real browser tests as code and run them as monitors.
- Category
- Uptime / synthetic
- License
- Proprietary
- Deployment
- SaaS
- Cost
- Low
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- —
- Maturity
- Rising
- Popularity
- The reference tool for "Playwright as monitoring"
The catch
Browser checks are the point but also the cost driver — heavy Playwright suites burn "browser run" quotas fast, and it assumes a team comfortable writing/maintaining test code.
Monitors
SyntheticsTracesNetwork
Capabilities
AlertingDashboardsConfig as codeAPI
Built for
DevelopersSRE / DevOps