Show HN: Checkly – Active Monitoring for Dev and Ops Teams

What is it that differentiates this product and should make me want to use it instead?

I'm Tim, working solo on an active monitoring SaaS tool called Checkly. Checkly monitors API endpoints and browser click flows from a single, simple dashboard.

During my career as a sys admin, developer and later engineering manager I worked a lot of monitoring tools. I was always looking for a simple active monitoring solution that was still deep and comprehensive. Something that could give me one simple dashboard that told me how my services were doing from a customer and/or end user perspective, while not dumbing down the control I had over what and how my services were checked and validated.

Checkly gives a lot of control to the operator:

- Extensive validation and customisation options on API responses - Complete control over checking browser transaction by writing Node.js scripts

Of course there is alerting via the usual suspects when things go pear shaped.

I'm super early stage, just finishing a small private beta period, learning every day. Any feedback would be awesome.

Thanks, Tim