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Cloud Native Monitoring: Benefits, Challenges & Best Practices

Mar 15, 2024 By Sara Miteva In Checkly

Cloud-native monitoring is all about keeping an eye on how well your cloud-based apps and services are doing. It's like having a health check-up for your digital operations, making sure everything runs smoothly and efficiently across distributed cloud systems.

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Speed Up Your Playwright Scripts with Request Interception

Mar 15, 2024 By Nočnica Mellifera In Checkly

With end-to-end testing, efficiency is key. Every millisecond counts, especially when you're running a large suite of tests. Today, we'll dive into how you can use request interception in Playwright to significantly reduce the runtime of your scripts.

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Improve Your Playwright Documentation with Steps

Mar 15, 2024 By Nočnica Mellifera In Checkly

When you’re implementing automated testing, clarity and maintainability of test scripts are as crucial as the tests themselves. Playwright offers a feature that enhances the readability and ease of debugging of your tests: test steps. This article explores how to use test steps in Playwright to document your test cases effectively.

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Integrating OpenTelemetry Instrumentation with FastAPI

Mar 14, 2024 By Sujitha Sakthivel In Atatus

What do we gain when we integrate OpenTelemetry with FastAPI? Integrating OpenTelemetry with FastAPI offers many benefits that greatly improve the observability and monitoring capabilities of applications built on this high-performance web framework. By integrating OpenTelemetry's instrumentation capabilities into FastAPI projects, you can understand your applications' inner workings, enabling them to monitor, analyze, and optimize performance.

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Volume Testing: Definition, Benefits & How to Get Started

Mar 12, 2024 By Alex Doukas In Speedscale

Volume testing - also known as flood testing - examines the stability and response time of a system. Learn why it matters and how to get started.

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Integrating Accessibility Checks in Playwright Tests with Checkly

Mar 12, 2024 By Nočnica Mellifera In Checkly

Ensuring your web application is accessible is not just about compliance; it's about inclusivity. Tools like Google Chrome's Lighthouse provide a starting point for accessibility checks. but integrating these checks into your development workflow can significantly enhance the quality of your product. This post explores how to perform automated accessibility checks using Playwright and Checkly, leveraging the power of the axe-core library.

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New in Playwright: detect and close unpredictable overlays with "addLocatorHandler"

Mar 8, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly

Discover the latest feature of Playwright 1.42 — `page.addLocatorHandler`. If you're tired of randomly appearing cookie banners breaking your end-to-end tests or want to automatically close all these intercom widgets, this method is right up your alley. With `addLocatorHandler`, handling elements that randomly pop up becomes a breeze! In the video, we'll show you how the new Playwright method works in practice and why it makes end-to-end testing and synthetic monitoring so much easier.

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What is an API Gateway

Mar 8, 2024 By The Graylog Team In Graylog

When people bemoan the complexity of interconnected IT environments, they usually mean that an organization has a lot of applications that all share data with each other. As your organization adds more applications, you need to make sure that they securely share data with each other. In short, security and development teams find themselves working to deploy and protect the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that enable applications to talk to each other.

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The Ultimate Guide to API Monitoring in 2024 - Metrics, Tools, and Proven Practices

Mar 7, 2024 By Harish R In SigNoz

According to Akamai, 83% of web traffic is through APIs. Microservices, servers, and clients constantly communicate to exchange information. Even the Google search you made to reach this article involved your browser client calling Google APIs. Given APIs govern the internet, businesses rely on them heavily. API health is directly proportional to business prosperity. This article covers everything about API monitoring, so your API infrastructure’s health is always in check ✅.

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Beyond APM: What Datadog Won't Tell You with Leon Adato of Kentik

Mar 5, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly

APM tools promise a unified observability platform, yet they inherently focus on internal metrics, traces, and logs. This internal focus, while valuable, misses critical dimensions of the user experience and network performance that are essential for a complete understanding of application behavior in real-world scenarios. With Kentik you can dive deep into your network performance and find problems before they affect your users.

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