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Checkly
Company blog · checklyhq.com/blog · on HN as tnoletwebprogramming
Checkly is the company blog at checklyhq.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2017, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 144 times, most often “Checkly”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 32 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN mostly mentions Checkly as a Playwright-based monitoring and testing service, and in hiring threads. The few linked posts cover an agentic Node.js rewrite and open-sourcing a pay calculator.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 32 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The only monitoring platform built from the ground up to be operated by developers and agents to give teams a clear signal of application health.
Most-linked posts?
- Checkly7 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2020-08-14
- Show HN: Checkly – Active Monitoring for Dev and Ops Teams4 people · 24 mentions · first linked 2017-12-31
- Switch from Puppeteer to Playwright4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-11-16
- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-06-08
- An in-depth look at 100% Zero Downtime deployments with Terraform – Checkly3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-11-03
- Why the 'Single Pane of Glass' Is Impossible3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-03-05
- The costs of Datadog Synthetics monitoring3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-04
- Saving Three Months of Latency with a Single OpenTelemetry Trace2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-06
- /jobs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-01
- Does Cache Rule Everything Around Me?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-31
What Hacker News says?
Yes, AWS’s canary service competes directly with my company https://checklyhq.com This is fine of course. We have many competitors.
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on “AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service”Submitted Saving Three Months of Latency with a Single OpenTelemetry Trace as a story · 101 points
HN discussion> Do people do that on a regular basis? They can now. https://www.checklyhq.com/blog/agentic-rewrite-nodejs-to-go/
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on “Shopify acquires Tailwind”Submitted Saving months of compute time with a single Grafana query as a story · 47 points
HN discussionWe use Caddy for serving our free dashboards and status pages on your own domain at https://checklyhq.com It was not super easy to set up. I think the whole config is 20 lines or so, but the docs, naming and functionality of how Caddy actually interfaces with LE was tricky to find out. Basically had to scrape together answers from various GitHub issues etc. I should write a blog post… Edit: now it runs fine btw
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on “Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt”Submitted Show HN: Checkly is now free for developers as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI’m super biased in this, having spend considerable time programming against PhantomJs, Selenium and now Headless Chrome / Puppeteer for my startup https://checklyhq.com . This whole area of automating browser interactions is an extremely hard thing to get stable. In my experience, the recent Puppeteer library takes the cake but PhantomJs is the spiritual father here. I will not talk about Selenium for blood pressur…
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on “PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development”Submitted Synthetic monitoring 2.0: full Playwright in the cloud as a story · 9 points
HN discussionCheckly | Full Stack JS, Lead Open Source | Berlin, REMOTE, EU region | Full time | https://checklyhq.com/jobs Checkly is the delightful API & E2E monitoring platform for modern developers: programmable, flexible and loving JavaScript. We are a young, well funded and growing developer tooling company run by experienced founders. We build our main SaaS app, a popular open source project called Headless Recorder and t…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”Submitted How We Slashed Vue.js SPA Load Times from 8 to 3 Seconds as a story · 9 points
HN discussionCheckly | UI/UX, front end, full stack engineers | Berlin / Remote| Full Time | https://checklyhq.com Checkly is an API monitoring and synthetic monitoring SaaS for modern DevOps teams. We are almost 5 people now, remote and in Berlin working hard to build the best active monitoring and e2e testing tool for developers. We are a Vue.js and Node.js shop looking for a product designer, front end and full stack engineer…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)”Submitted Switch from Puppeteer to Playwright as a story · 7 points
HN discussionCheckly | Engineering | REMOTE | Full time | https://www.checklyhq.com/ Checkly helps engineers build reliable products by unifying testing, monitoring and observability. OpenTelemetry, Playwright, and Monitoring as Code are our foundation for unifying performance and reliability. In 2024, we raised $20M in Series B funding from Balderton, CRV, and Accel to take things to the next level. -Senior Backend Engineer (Re…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)”Submitted Monitoring as Code Using Terraform as a story · 7 points
HN discussionCheckly | Multiple Roles | REMOTE | Full time | https://www.checklyhq.com/ Checkly helps engineers build reliable products by unifying testing, monitoring and observability. OpenTelemetry, Playwright, and Monitoring as Code are our foundation for unifying performance and reliability. In 2024, we raised $20M in Series B funding from Balderton, CRV, and Accel to take things to the next level. -Enterprise Account Execu…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)”Submitted 12,479 Applications, Zero Ghosting: A Look at Checkly's 2025 Hiring as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWhat do people thing of playwright vs cypress? I've been considering using playwright instead as it supports more browsers and I feel like it's easier to do production monitoring (by putting it in a aws lambda or using checkly) - Cypress: https://www.cypress.io - Playwright aws lambda: https://github.com/PauloGoncalvesBH/running-playwright-on-aw... - Checkly: https://www.checklyhq.com
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on “Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox”Submitted When to violate coding best practices as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCheckly | Senior Product Engineer AI | REMOTE (UTC +3 to UTC -3) | Full time | €84k - €103k + equity | https://www.checklyhq.com/ Checkly helps engineers build reliable products by unifying testing, monitoring and observability. OpenTelemetry, Playwright, and Monitoring as Code are our foundation for unifying performance and reliability. In 2024, we raised $20M in Series B funding from Balderton, CRV, and Accel to t…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)”Submitted Why the 'Single Pane of Glass' Is Impossible as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCheckly | Remote (GMT-3 to GMT+3) | Full-time Making E2E Active Webtesting kick ass! https://checklyhq.com Jobs ( https://www.checklyhq.com/jobs ): - Frontend Dev (mostly Vue) - Fullstack (AWS (Lambdas, Queues, DBs, etc.) / Vue / Postgres / Clickhouse) - Head of Marketing - Product - SRE Mention "Nico" :)
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)”Submitted A tcpdump led us to a bug in Node's IPv6 handling as a story · 5 points
HN discussionJust checked out your site. Two things I ran into, the first was that the site seemingly wouldn't load. So I quickly typed in https://www.checklyhq.com and it doesn't resolve. Then I went back to the original url and gave it a bit of time, took maybe eight seconds to load the content, and it's doing that every time (HN flood?). It seems like something is fully loading, blocking the page load, before it finally displ…
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on “How to Find Your Earliest Users”Submitted Playwright Surpasses Cypress for Downloads as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis hits home. Literraly signed up the first paying customer for my monitoring SaaS [0] two days ago. It was done through discussing issues over mail, a tiny bit of “hand holding” and treating the customer as a launching partner (which they totally are). That first Stripe notification is pretty awesome [0] https://checklyhq.com
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on “How to Find Your Earliest Users”Submitted Are ChatGPT or Claude Better Than Playwright Codegen? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCheckly | Remote (GMT+/-3 timezone) | Full-Time, Fully remote | https://www.checklyhq.com/ Checkly is the API & E2E monitoring platform for the modern stack: programmable, flexible and loving JavaScript. We are looking for senior profiles across all tech positions. Please apply if you have at least 3 years of relevant experience, you can find our open positions below: - Site Reliability Engineer Tech Stack: Node.js,…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”Submitted Checkly raises $20M, launches OTel-powered 'Checkly Traces' as a story · 4 points
HN discussionStarted a Saas for active monitoring of API's and browser click flows: https://checklyhq.com
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on “Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?”Submitted How often should you ping your site? as a story · 4 points
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