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Welcome to the Checkly Guides section! Here you’ll find practical, hands-on guides that help you implement monitoring solutions, automate testing workflows, and optimize your applications for reliability and performance.

Getting Started Guides

Start your journey with Checkly using these foundational guides that cover the essential concepts and workflows.

Structure a project

Organize checks by service with groups, share settings in one config, and deploy from CI on every merge

Playwright tests to monitors

Run the Playwright tests you already have as scheduled production monitors, and see what a failure looks like

Monitoring Guides

Comprehensive guides for different types of monitoring scenarios to ensure complete coverage of your applications.

End-to-End Monitoring

Learn how to monitor complete user journeys and critical business flows

Monitor from around the globe

Why one vantage point is not monitoring, with real per-location latency data, parallel scheduling, and region-consensus alerts

Alert without the noise

Route alerts by urgency, retry blips in place, escalate on consecutive runs, and mute planned deploys

Uptime Monitoring

Set up reliable uptime monitoring for your applications and services

Monitor a checkout flow

Browse, search, add to cart, and checkout as one Playwright Check Suite, with a confirmation-text assertion and a Terraform equivalent

Terraform E-commerce

Infrastructure as Code approach to e-commerce monitoring

Keyword Monitoring

Monitor specific content and keywords on your websites

Run checks on every deploy

Test pull request previews and validate production deployments with recorded Checkly sessions

API Monitoring Guides

Specialized guides for monitoring APIs and web services with advanced techniques and integrations.

OpenAPI Monitoring

Automatically generate monitoring checks from your OpenAPI specifications

Stripe API Monitoring

Set up comprehensive monitoring for Stripe API endpoints and webhooks

API Setup Scripts

Create setup scripts to prepare your API environment for testing

Playwright Guides

Advanced Playwright techniques and best practices for reliable browser automation and testing.

Puppeteer Migration

Migrate your existing Puppeteer scripts to Playwright

Developer Fixtures

Use fixtures to create reusable test data and setup

Auto-Waiting Methods

Master Playwright’s auto-waiting capabilities for more reliable tests

Advanced Topics

Specialized guides for advanced monitoring scenarios that require deeper technical knowledge.

Reading Traces

Understand and analyze distributed tracing data for debugging

Broken Link Monitoring

Set up automated monitoring to detect broken links on your websites