October 2020 Summaries

The Checkly Terraform Provider allows users to automate the management of synthetic transaction monitoring checks by specifying their setup as code. This enables users to create multiple checks, group related checks together, and avoid duplicated code. The provider supports various features such as environment variables, data center locations, alert settings, and CI/CD triggers, which can be centralized and managed through groups. Users can also use snippets to reuse common code and improve maintainability. By using the Terraform Provider, users can easily manage their synthetic transaction monitoring setup on Checkly, making it easier to scale and maintain a large number of checks.

This change applies to API checks that assert JSON bodies in response arrays, enabling the use of JSON path expressions to check individual elements within the array. The new regime will apply to a tiny percentage of users, mainly those who have assertions with JSON paths that target specific elements in the array. This change may break certain assertions that previously checked the entire array as a whole, but many existing JSON path queries will remain unaffected. Users are advised to review their API checks and remove any assertions that target individual elements in the array, or set reminders to add similar ones after November 2nd. The change is expected to be released on November 3rd, and users can expect alerts if their checks fail as a result of this update.