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Third-party APIs and cloud based software as a service (SaaS) tools have become a cornerstone of modern enterprises. It is essential to monitor log data and optimize API performance. This will ensure that development teams provide the desired advantages to clients and users. To address this challenge, businesses can use an observability pipeline. It is a set of tools and processes that monitor and analyze data from various sources. That includes third-party APIs and SaaS tools.
Today the Checkly CLI is generally available. Together with its companion — the new test sessions screen (in beta) — this marks a big milestone for us at Checkly and our users. We already talked about monitoring as code and the CLI during its alpha and beta testing phases but here is a short recap. With the Checkly CLI you have the most powerful monitoring as code workflow at your fingertips.
We believe monitoring should be set up as code and live in your repository. Today, we are thrilled to announce that our Checkly CLI is now available to everyone! The CLI is our native tool enabling monitoring as code (MaC). This is a significant achievement for us, and we owe it to our users who beta-tested the CLI and gave us valuable feedback over the past few weeks.
I’ll get right to the point: Not uniting testing and monitoring is costing you expensive engineering time, sales, and customer confidence. Below you’ll find an all too familiar scenario that outlines the problems of traditional testing and monitoring approaches and what the benefits are of a united approach to testing and monitoring through monitoring as code (MaC).