In this video, we explore how to use the Checkly CLI to programmatically test and monitor Next.js API endpoints. We'll create a dynamic setup that detects new API GET URLs and use GitHub actions to test preview API deployments and deploy API monitoring after production deploys.

Next.js example project: https://github.com/stefanjudis/checkly-next-api-monitoring/
Checkly Community: https://www.checklyhq.com/slack/
Dynamic check docs: https://www.checklyhq.com/docs/cli/dynamic-check-creation/

0:00 Intro

0:41 Next.js setup

2:25 Checkly API Monitoring explained

3:14 How to use the Checkly CLI

4:30 Monitoring as Code with Checkly constructs

6:03 Test and deploy API monitoring

7:30 Dynamic check creation

10:15 Add and detect a new GET endpoint

11:41 Monitoring as Code in CI/CD

12:11 Open a new pull request

13:30 Deploy a Vercel preview environment with GitHub actions

14:41 Checkly test sessions

15:30 Deploy to production with GitHub actions

17:08 Dynamic check creation examples

17:53 Outro

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