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Unite Testing and Monitoring with a Monitoring as Code Workflow, Enabled by the Checkly CLI

Siloing testing and monitoring is increasing your costs, wasting Dev and QA hours, and impacting your customer's experiences. Stefan Judis and Jonathan Canales explain how to align your QA, Dev, and Ops by enabling teams to code, test, and deploy API and Playwright-based checks with our monitoring as code (MaC) workflow, enabled by the Checkly CLI.

How Treating Testing and Monitoring as Separate Operations is Costing You Money

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).

Playwright Explained

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.

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.