Checkly is monitoring-as-code: engineers write checks in Playwright and TypeScript and deploy them from git. Smoketest monitors the same kind of real-browser test from a sentence, so anyone on the team can add one.
No Playwright, no TypeScript, no git. Your first run in about two minutes.
Checkly and Smoketest both run real-browser tests against production on a schedule and on every deploy. The difference is how a check gets written and who can write one.
Checkly checks are Playwright and TypeScript, committed to git. Smoketest tests are a sentence or two.
Checkly's AI can generate a check, but it produces code an engineer reviews and commits. Smoketest needs no code at any step.
Checkly is built for engineers and coding agents. With Smoketest, a PM, founder, or support lead can add a test.
Checkly returns logs, traces, and video. Smoketest hands you a recording, a transcript, and a pass or fail result with reasoning.
Start on the login page. Log in with the test account. Open the orders page. Confirm the latest order is visible.
Every failed run hands you a recording, a transcript, the result, and the downloadable Playwright trace.
Keep the workflow where QA already works. Smoketest adds execution, evidence, and routing without becoming another board.
A workspace owner authorizes Jira or Linear once. Smoketest keeps Connection identity, permissions, token health, and webhook health visible.
Choose the team or board, exact QA status, direct Passed and Development statuses, then set the URL, Environment, device, and access settings.
When a ticket enters QA, Smoketest freezes current context, enriches it from an eligible ticket-linked pull request, generates one Test, and runs it automatically.
Smoketest posts evidence to one evolving Attempt comment. Passed moves forward, Failed returns to Development, and No Result stays in QA. Newer human changes always win.
Yes, and it's good. Checkly's AI can generate a check and help investigate failures. But the check it produces is Playwright and TypeScript that an engineer reviews and commits. Smoketest needs no code at any step: you describe the test and the agent runs it.
No. A Smoketest test is a sentence or two, so a PM, founder, or support lead can add one. Checkly checks are written in Playwright and TypeScript and deployed from git.
For real-browser user tests, yes. Run them against production on a schedule or on every deploy, and get alerted when one breaks. Checkly also covers API and multistep checks and infrastructure-as-code, which Smoketest does not.
Yes. Every run saves a downloadable Playwright trace alongside the recording, transcript, and result.
About two minutes: paste a URL, write the test, run it once, then schedule it. No repo, pipeline, or deploy step to wire up.
Describe a test in a sentence, run it against your live app, and get a recording and a result. No Playwright, no TypeScript, no git.
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