Checkly — Free Plan for Startups

Deal Highlights

Checkly — Monitoring as Code for Modern Development Teams

Checkly is a monitoring platform that lets you define API checks and browser tests as code — written in JavaScript/TypeScript, stored in your repo, and deployed through your CI/CD pipeline. Instead of clicking through a monitoring dashboard, you write tests that verify your application works end-to-end.

Monitoring That Ships With Your Code

Traditional monitoring is configured through dashboards and disconnected from your development workflow. Checkly monitoring-as-code means your checks live alongside your application code. When you ship a new API endpoint, the monitoring check ships with it in the same PR.

API and Browser Monitoring

API checks verify response codes, body content, headers, and response times for your endpoints. Browser checks use Playwright to simulate real user flows — login, checkout, search, signup — and alert you when they break. Both run from 20+ global locations.

Playwright-Powered

Browser checks use Playwright — the same framework your team uses for end-to-end testing. Reuse existing Playwright tests as monitoring checks. No proprietary scripting language to learn.

Checkly vs Datadog Synthetic

Datadog Synthetics is part of a massive observability platform. Checkly is focused on monitoring-as-code with better developer experience and Playwright integration. Datadog is better if you already use their ecosystem. Checkly is better for developer-first monitoring.

Getting Started

1. Install Checkly CLI: npm create checkly
2. Write checks in JavaScript or TypeScript
3. Deploy with checkly deploy from your CI/CD
4. Get alerts when checks fail

Pricing

Free plan includes 5 API checks and 1 browser check. Starter at $30/month adds more checks and locations. Scale at $75/month adds team features and advanced alerting.

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