Checkly empowers developers and agents to own and ensure application performance and reliability, from pull request to post-mortem
Hannes Lenke, CEO, shares the details on Checkly and what it’s like to work there.
In this Video
We discuss:
- Details about Checkly and what they do
- Checkly’s background story
- Typical customers / Use cases
- The latest at Checkly
- The culture at Checkly
Video Summary
What is Checkly?
Checkly is an active reliability platform built specifically for developers and automated agents. It provides synthetic monitoring for websites, APIs, and DNS records from a customer-facing perspective. The platform ensures that critical digital assets are up and running, monitoring specific user click flows to verify they operate correctly. If an issue arises, Checkly integrates with alerting systems to immediately notify developers or support agents so they can resolve the problem before it widely impacts end-users.
The Origin Story of Checkly and Monitoring as Code
The concept of Checkly was born out of traditional engineering frustrations with legacy operations tools. Historically, infrastructure monitoring relied on a practice known as “click ops,” where engineers had to manually click through an interactive portal to configure alerts.
To solve this, Checkly pioneered the concept of Monitoring as Code (MaC). This approach treats monitoring configurations exactly like application source code. Engineers can write, version control, and store their monitoring parameters directly inside their code repositories next to their application logic. When an application change goes to production, the updated monitoring rules deploy simultaneously.
Who Uses Checkly?
Checkly serves modern engineering and automated teams ranging from fast-growing startups to massive global enterprise companies. Notable engineering teams utilizing the platform include LinkedIn, Mistral AI, and Resolve AI. It is also heavily adopted by traditional institutions like banks, where real-time API reliability and payment transaction flows (such as those managing infrastructure for platforms like Uber) are financially critical.
How AI and Autonomous Agents Are Changing Monitoring
Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally shifting the primary user base of developer tools. Checkly has rebuilt its platform from the ground up to be fully compatible with headless environments and autonomous AI agents.
Because modern AI models are highly efficient at writing code, they are increasingly responsible for generating and configuring application tests. Currently, over 50% of the active configurations on Checkly are driven directly by automated AI agents rather than human developers. This shift allows engineering teams to scale their test coverage 10x faster than traditional manual DevOps methodologies.
Company Culture and Global Operations
Checkly operates as a transparent, remote-first organization with team members distributed across 17 different countries. The company’s workforce is split evenly, with 50% based in Europe and 50% in the United States, reflecting its global revenue distribution. The company culture relies heavily on direct, transparent communication, frequently sharing internal data and financial metrics across asynchronous tools like Slack and Notion to give employees full context to execute their roles effectively.