Welcome dear reader! It's time for a deep dive into the world of DNS. As you would expect for a SaaS startup, everything starts with the customer. On a bright sunny day, we received a support request, asking for an explanation for unusual 5 second DNS resolution times that triggered check degradations.
Playwright is an open-source framework for cross-browser automation and end-to-end web application testing. It was designed to be a fast, reliable, robust, and evergreen test automation framework, and its API supports modern rendering engines that include Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox. Playwright tests run on Windows, Linux, and macOS, locally or on your continuous integration pipeline, and headless or headed.
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.
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.
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.
The Checkly team is continually working to improve our platform to meet—and exceed—the current and future monitoring needs of our customers, and we’re thrilled to share another batch of new product features and enhancements during Checkly Launch Week 2.
Checkly is the synthetic monitoring platform that scales. A core part of the Checkly platform is our monitoring as code workflow, which just got a massive boost with the launch of our TS/JS native Checkly CLI which is now in beta!
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.
Using Checkly’s Playwright Test and GitHub sync integration helped Kizen optimize testing and monitoring workflows Kizen is a no-code, enterprise-grade Predictive Innovation Engine that enables sales, marketing, and operations teams to save time and drive higher revenues and profitability. Their product portfolio includes a flexible customer relationship manager (ƒCRM), operations cloud, automation engine, and a predictive data platform.
