Check in with Checkly: H1 2025 Features, Fixes & What's Next

Dan Giordano and Alberto Gomez walk through the new features released in the first half of 2025.

Detect

• Uptime Monitors (GA) - Basic URL, API, TCP, DNS checks at lower cost
• 1-second check frequency for API monitoring
• Playwright Suite Checks (Beta) - Run existing Playwright test suites in production without modification

Communicate

• Status Pages (GA) - External status pages with automated incident creation
• Manual incident management

Resolve

• OpenTelemetry integration - Connect frontend failures to backend traces
• AI analysis for failed checks

Other Updates

• Dark mode
• New navigation layout
• CLI import to convert UI monitors to code
• Group inheritance improvements
• AWS and Vercel marketplace availability

Demo

• Setting up Playwright suite checks
• Status page incident handling
• Using traces to debug issues
• Importing UI configuration to code

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

03:24 - Detection features

07:13 - Communication features

09:25 - Resolution features

12:05 - Live demo starts

13:20 - Vercel marketplace demo

14:07 - Dark mode demonstration

15:49 - New navigation and groups behavior

17:56 - Uptime monitors introduction

20:16 - Playwright suite checks demo

23:06 - Playwright config explanation

28:10 - 1-second API check frequency

30:47 - Status pages demo starts

33:45 - Automated incident creation

35:06 - Manual incident management

37:05 - Traces and OpenTelemetry demo

42:11 - AI-powered test analysis

45:00 - CLI import feature demo

49:05 - Q&A session

Links:
Checkly: checkly.com
Docs: docs.checkly.com