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Headless Recorder: Record Puppeteer and Playwright scripts

The Headless Recorder is a Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Puppeteer or Playwright script. It massively simplifies the process of generating scripts for scraping, testing, and monitoring. Install it from the Chrome Webstore, hit "Record" and watch how it generates native Puppeteer or Playwright scripts when you interact with the browser.

Headless browser automation guide - Writing theheadless.dev

After weeks of writing, researching and hopefully enough proofreading, we just launched a living collection of practical guides on leveraging headless browser tools (starting with Puppeteer and Playwright) for testing, monitoring, scraping, performance measuring and more. We called it theheadless.dev. This article is about the different approaches we tried in contributing ideas to the Puppeteer community, as well as the principles that guide our latest contribution.

Intro to Puppeteer and Checkly

A short introduction and overview to Puppeteer showing executions on both a local machine and Checkly, together with some considerations on how it fits in the current landscape of browser automation tool. Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome/Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Checkly is an active reliability platform bridging the gap between traditional monitoring and E2E testing, allowing you to automatically verify your API behaviour, as well as your key site transactions from one simple dashboard.

Improving the SSL certificate expiration alerts

We just updated our SSL certificate expiration alerting. This update gives you more control over where and when you want to receive these alerts. Before today, certificate alerts were set as part of "Alert Settings" tab, either globally or using specific settings for checks & check groups. This wasn't all that flexible and more granular control was already on our public roadmap.

How we monitor Checkly

If you follow our very own @HLENKE, you might have seen his recent tweet. Availability and responsiveness are key topics for every SaaS platform. They also happen to be multi-level, complex topics that often span different technology stacks and can be tackled with a variety of approaches. Hannes' tweet actually gives us the perfect segue into a blog post about how our engineering team currently monitors Checkly.

Easy automated E2E testing & monitoring for your frontend with Vercel and Checkly

Exciting times ahead. With the Jamstack gaining momentum, the landscape around it is offering more and more tools to streamline developer workflows and free up time for actual development. A cutting edge solution in this interesting space is Vercel, formerly known as ZEIT. In this blog post we will get a taste of Vercel's capabilities by using it to deploy and preview a sample Gatsby blog - and while we're at it, we will of course take the chance to kick off some checks automatically from Checkly.

Checkly raises $2.25M seed round to push Active Reliability forward

We are thrilled to announce that we have just raised a $2.25M seed round. This round is led by Accel and some great founders — including current and former executives from Vercel (formerly Zeit), Instana, Twilio and many more. Welcome, on board! Active monitoring and end-to-end testing have been silos with different tools and platforms. Modern DevOps demands a change. We firmly believe that Checkly sits at the intersection of these distinct market trends.