March 2020 Summaries

We have enhanced our webhook alerts with a new design that closely resembles our API checks. The enhancements include choosing from common HTTP methods, setting headers for webhooks, and adding query parameters as structured key/values. This change allows users to customize their webhook settings further, providing more flexibility in handling incoming requests.

We have released a new feature and bug fixes for our GitHub deployments integration, which includes toggling screenshot display in PRs, updated format of GitHub PRs to utilize groups feature, and fixing bugs related to excessive API token requests, group ordering, and response body logging.

We've upgraded the Puppeteer library for our browser checks from v1.19 to v2.0.0, a stable release with 73 new features and enhancements, including an updated Chromium version to 79.0.3942.0, NodeJS version 10, and new APIs such as page.screenshot and page.emulateMediaType. The upgrade also includes bug fixes like clipping elements to the viewport in page.screenshot and removing the deprecated page.emulateMedia API.

In this guest article, SRE experts John Arundel and Andy Pearson show you how to connect your Checkly data to Prometheus and Grafana, as part of an integrated observability pipeline. By connecting these tools, users can collect, query, visualize, and alert on their infrastructure metrics in a single portal, gaining important advantages over traditional monitoring methods. The authors provide step-by-step instructions on setting up the connection, including applying new configurations to the Prometheus server and using Grafana queries to graph data. They also discuss how to use this integrated pipeline to answer complex questions about site performance, reliability, latency, and more, making it easier to diagnose and troubleshoot issues with infrastructure. By following these steps, users can unlock the full potential of their observability pipeline and gain a deeper understanding of their infrastructure's performance and behavior.