Checkly is a simple up-time monitor that was easy to setup and now I'm using it for everything.
by Rick Blalock · 10/23/2021
At Fish Rules we have lots of APIs. Internally we can monitor them but we started using 3rd party API's and wrapping them for use and also we have 3rd parties now consuming our APIs. We needed to get more transparent on the monitoring. I found Checkly by accident and thought I'd try it.
It took a couple clicks and boom, done (using Vercel’s integration). It auto selected repos in our org and set up basic front-end health checks. Stellar!
Setting up an API where I copy a cURL example was easy!
Some things it was easy to figure out how to template things, others, not so much. It definitely looked simpler when I was reading about it.
The “Add assertions” made it really easy to set these up and they link to https://jsonpath.com/ to drop in the JSON to test out.
It’d be nice if this was part of the UI though and it would auto-read JSON responses
I couldn’t figure out how to move an API check in to a “group” (folder) after creating it.
Groups make things DRY
Hitting escape when creating an API exits out and you lose all your edits, rather than exiting out of a modal that pops up when doing various things.
While testing an API that isn’t saved and then closing the testing screen will cause the group screen to exit, and you lose all your edits.
Sometimes the editor won’t let you test because there is “unsaved” changes to the “group” even when it wasn’t true. It's also not always true when you're in this state or mode.
Duplicating a request, editing and saving it, didn’t save and just kept the dup. record. I figured out there’s a weird combo of different save buttons you have to hit.
I couldn’t figure out how to assign process.env.ENVIRONMENT_URL
as the endpoint, even though the docs say to specify that.
It took all of 2 minutes to deploy a status page. Very nice!
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