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How to Set Downtime Alerts for your Website

Learn how to monitor your website uptime proactively, setting downtime alerts to get notified immediately of any accessibility or performance issues. In this guide, we will show you how to setup downtime alerts using Dotcom-Monitor's website monitoring tool. Get real-time insights into your website's performance, and monitor multiple websites and web applications from different locations around the world.

Unite Testing and Monitoring with a Monitoring as Code Workflow, Enabled by the Checkly CLI

Siloing testing and monitoring is increasing your costs, wasting Dev and QA hours, and impacting your customer's experiences. Stefan Judis and Jonathan Canales explain how to align your QA, Dev, and Ops by enabling teams to code, test, and deploy API and Playwright-based checks with our monitoring as code (MaC) workflow, enabled by the Checkly CLI.

How Treating Testing and Monitoring as Separate Operations is Costing You Money

I’ll get right to the point: Not uniting testing and monitoring is costing you expensive engineering time, sales, and customer confidence. Below you’ll find an all too familiar scenario that outlines the problems of traditional testing and monitoring approaches and what the benefits are of a united approach to testing and monitoring through monitoring as code (MaC).

Frontend vs. backend: How to plan your performance testing strategy

There are many aspects of application performance, but they broadly fall into two categories: frontend performance and backend performance. As a tester, it’s important to know the differences between the two and how that impacts the way you approach your tests. In this blog, I’ll provide a high-level overview of frontend performance testing and backend performance testing, including pros and cons of each one.

Overcoming the Challenges of Managing Testing Environments on AWS

Software developers need controlled and isolated environments to try new features, bug fixes, and other changes before deploying them to production. This separation captures possible issues early, reducing the risk of live environment errors or performance issues. Teams can experiment with various configurations, tools, and technologies in test environments, fostering innovation and development.

Introducing Grafana Cloud k6: unified performance testing and observability

Organizations use load and performance testing to prevent issues from impacting customers, which is essential if they want to stay relevant in today’s digital-first world. And with the rise of cloud native technology and DevOps, software teams must shift performance testing left, towards development. However, traditional load and performance testing tools simply haven’t kept pace, leaving developers, operations, and QA teams siloed.