Proactive monitoring & debugging for Vercel apps with Checkly

[pawlean (Pauline P. Narvas)]

Vercel Community Session: Proactive monitoring & debugging for Vercel apps

Join the Vercel Community for a live session on April 1.

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Join Vercel and Checkly for a deep dive into proactive monitoring and debugging for modern frontend applications. Learn how to integrate monitoring-as-code, Playwright testing, and API monitoring into your deployment workflow to catch issues before they reach production. Discover best practices for faster issue resolution, smarter alerting.

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Speakers

Dan Giordano	Rikard Nilsson
VP of Marketing at Checkly	Senior Product Manager at Checkly
LinkedIn	LinkedIn

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Moderators

Amy Egan (@amyegan)	Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean)
Community at Vercel	Community at Vercel
Twitter/X | LinkedIn | Bluesky	Twitter/X | LinkedIn | Bluesky

[pawlean (Pauline P. Narvas)]

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Originally sent in Proactive monitoring & debugging for Vercel apps

pawlean

Excited for this!

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amyegan

https://community.vercel.com/code-of-conduct

pawlean

If you have any questions, drop them in the chat! We'll ask them at the end of the session

choir27

hello hello

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pawlean

Hi, @choir27! Great to see you here

How's it going?

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choir27

It's going swell!! Just finished editing a video and adding captions to it ^^ Hbu?

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pawlean

Sounds awesome! Thanks for joining All good over here, learning a lot about Checkly

Here's the link → GitHub - checkly/nextjs-checkly-starter-template: A minimal starter template to help you getting started with Nextjs and Checkly monitoring.

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kampouse

wuw the chat here dose not target="_blank"

pawlean

Wait, what do you mean? @Jean

kampouse

when you "click on the link it goes to page instead of opening a tab"

pawlean

Oh, I didn't realise. Let's see if we can get that fixed! Thank you

As per usual, great feedback

choir27

Oh, I thought that was a feature not a bug lol

kampouse

kinda dumb if you have a live open imo

pawlean

Totally agree it's not ideal, will share that with our Discourse team. They power the plugin

BTW in case anyone had questions about how to use Checkly with Vercel, throw them in here.

Demo gods are on Rikard's side today

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choir27

Omg is Rikard my cousin hahahaha jkjk

I probz missed it cause I joined late, but what is Checkly lol

pawlean

From their website →

Checkly is an Application Reliability platform built for engineering teams. Quickly test , monitor, and observe your apps & APIs using Playwright & OpenTelemetry in a single workflow.

kampouse

is checkly a competitor?

of sentry

pawlean

Could be a good question to ask! Maybe the differences between Sentry and Checkly? I'm not familiar with Sentry personally

kampouse

me neither debug in prods instead…

i think a good question!

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choir27

eating lunch while I watch so gonna be on !lurk

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pawlean

We'll ask it for you

Yay, great shoutout! Will share with the team

Does Checkly have an API?

kampouse

great answer!

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pawlean

Thanks for asking!

amyegan

Vercel Deployment Protection - Checkly Docs | Checkly

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choir27

What are some underrated Checkly features in your opinions?

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pawlean

Greattt question!!

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rbadillap

I personally liked the Dashboard and Private location endpoints, do you guys think this is enough to offer a status page for instances located in private VPCs?

pawlean

will ask

rbadillap

well, that was my first message in the community

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pawlean

Welcome to the Community btw! Great to have you join us

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jacobparis

When I'm implementing monitoring tools, I usually get a bit lost with the traces and spans and wide events – do you have any opinions or guidance for how/what to track?

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amyegan

Will ask this one next!

pawlean

Hope that answered your question!

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choir27

Great answers!! Loved hearing from you both~

So many great questions here

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amyegan

Slack community

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choir27

Thanks for moderating the stream!!

rbadillap

Thanks!

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jacobparis

Thanks!

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pawlean

Thanks, folks! See you in the next one.