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Checkly Completes SOC 2 Type 2 Audit

In August 2022, Checkly's security team successfully implemented and documented all necessary security controls to be SOC 2 compliant for the first time. To get our SOC 2 Type 1 report we had to prove that our engineering, HR, operational, and IT security processes met the high level of information security SOC 2 compliance demands to an accredited auditing firm.

Public Dashboards, Incident Management, and Our New Analytics API

Late last year we announced improvements to our public dashboards that included a revamped dashboard design that allowed users to see monitoring data in a more easily-digestible way, on any device. We improved performance across the board, and also introduced new incident management functionality—available for paid plans only—that allows users to more easily communicate scheduled maintenance notices and alert developers to minor and major incidents.

Announcing the General Availability of Playwright Test Support

Back in October of 2022 we unveiled the beta of @playwright/test. We’re now happy to announce that Playwright Test (PWT) is now generally available! We’ve worked hard to make Checkly the best way to run your Playwright tests, and we’ve also decided to make Playwright—which is experiencing a surge in usage and popularity— the default and recommended web testing framework to use with Checkly.

Checkly Introduces Monitoring as Code Workflow, Enabled By a New CLI, to Unite Testing and Monitoring

Checkly introduces monitoring as code workflow, enabled by a new CLI, to unite testing and monitoring. The company announced the general availability of Playwright Test and has selected Playwright as its preferred testing and monitoring framework. Company also unveils additional innovations including general availability of Playwright Test and selects Playwright as its preferred testing and monitoring framework

Using Playwright to Monitor Third-Party Resources That Could Impact User Experience

Today’s web consists of lots of 3rd party resources. Let it be your fonts, transformed and optimized media assets, or analytics and ad scripts, many sites out there include resources that they don’t own. Your website probably has a lot of those dependencies, too! And while implementing third-party resources has downsides for performance and you should self-host your assets when possible, sometimes relying on external files is unavoidable.