This video covers how to use Checkly's API checks and active synthetic monitoring to streamline your API monitoring process and detect issues faster.

We'll set up a new API check to monitor one of Checkly's API endpoints and go step-by-step from configuring the API request to defining essential headers, monitoring details and retry strategies.

Checkly API check docs: https://www.checklyhq.com/docs/api-checks/
Checkly community: https://www.checklyhq.com/slack/

0:00 Intro

0:22 The importance of synthetic monitoring

1:11 Create a new API check

2:08 Define request details such as headers and request body

3:06 Monitor performance with Checkly API checks

3:34 Add API check assertions

3:59 Understand the "round robin" and "parallel" scheduling strategy

4:36 Define you monitoring frequency

5:04 Create the API check

5:26 Analyze your API check results

6:07 Control your monitoring as code

6:52 Outro

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