Hey fellow Engineers!, I'm looking to hear about y...
# observability
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Hey fellow Engineers!, I'm looking to hear about your experiences with synthetic monitoring and get some feedback on my approach. Throughout my career, I've tried multiple solutions but often found them lacking due to complex UIs, difficulty duplicating setups, lack of parameterization, and complicated review processes. A few weeks ago, I decided to tackle these issues by creating and open-sourcing https://github.com/checksdev/synthetic-open-schema/. My goal is to standardize the synthetic monitoring domain, making it more intuitive and efficient. I've now implemented this schema and am offering it as a service through https://checks.dev. It is currently in beta and I'd love to grant enough credits to anyone willing to adopt it and provide feedback. Looking forward to your thoughts and experiences!
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Interesting! I just signed up and i'm not up for installing a cli tool right now but if you could throw a web client/postman type tool that might be good enough for folks to test it out.
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hi @venkata mutyala, thanks for the feedback. A playground is currently under development, it'll let you try it without using the CLI. If you DM me your email I can enable that feature flag on your account as soon as it is available 🙂
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I just sent you a connection request. Super cool you are based out of WY. Feel free to DM me via linkedin if i can be of any further help. Have a good one
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Thank you for the connection request, accepted already 😉 I've added your account information to the list of early adopters for the Playground, I'll reach out to you once the feature is in production and available on your account.
hey @venkata mutyala. I've got news, our in-browser playground is almost ready to be rolled out to early adopters, but I wanted to share this early screenshot with you, willing to know what you think about it. It is an in-browser IDE that'll let you edit and run checks on any of the available regions and get the results in _~1*num_regions_ seconds. Would that be good enough for you to give the product a try, as it doesn't require you to install anything on your workstation?