Checkly alternatives
9 other tools do this job. Which one is right depends on why Checkly is not working for you — so start from the reason, not the list.
Why teams leave Checkly
- Playwright-centric; teams on other frameworks get less benefit.
- Browser checks at high frequency across many locations get expensive.
- Not a full observability platform — no APM or log management.
Worth saying: Checkly is genuinely strong at this — one playwright script serves as both an e2e test and a production monitor. If that is the part you rely on, switching may cost more than it saves.
If cost is the problem
Cheaper than Checkly at the entry point, or free outright.
Datadog Synthetic Monitoring
Monitoring
Synthetic checks correlated with APM traces, logs and infrastructure metrics.
New Relic Synthetic Monitoring
Monitoring
Scripted browser and API monitors included in New Relic's usage-based platform.
Better Stack
Monitoring
Uptime monitoring, incident management and status pages in one affordable product.
Pingdom
Monitoring
Long-established uptime and transaction monitoring, now part of SolarWinds.
If you need open source
Checkly is proprietary; these are not.
If it has to run on your own infrastructure
Checkly is cloud-only; these can be self-hosted.
If nobody on the team writes code
Checkly expects code; these do not.
Everything else in Monitoring
Ranked by how widely adopted they are. Compare any two to see the differences that matter.
Synthetic checks correlated with APM traces, logs and infrastructure metrics.
Scripted browser and API monitors included in New Relic's usage-based platform.
Uptime monitoring, incident management and status pages in one affordable product.
Long-established uptime and transaction monitoring, now part of SolarWinds.
Error tracking with stack traces, release attribution and now session replay.
Full-stack observability with automatic dependency mapping and AI root-cause analysis.
k6-powered checks inside Grafana Cloud, alongside your existing dashboards.
Affordable uptime, page-speed, SSL and domain monitoring from many global locations.
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