This post will introduce Checkly, the synthetic monitoring solution, and their monitoring as code approach. This guest post was written by Hannes Lenke, the CEO, and co-founder of Checkly. ‍ First, thanks to Birol and the ilert team for the opportunity to introduce Checkly. ilert recently announced discontinuing its uptime monitoring feature and worked with us on an integration to ensure that existing customers could migrate seamlessly. ‍ So, what is monitoring as code and Checkly?

IT-Incident Management - a hot topic and more important than ever in the digital age. Companies are increasingly relying on technology to maintain their operations, as any downtime can have catastrophic consequences. On average, one minute of downtime costs $9,000. ‍ Therefore, an efficient and especially organization-specific incident management system is essential. However, there are many components and options in incident management, so what software stack should you use? ‍