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Checkly Bot — What It Is and How to Handle It

Checkly is a high-programmability active monitoring solution. We support users in monitoring their websites and APIs. Puppeteer and Playwright (both supported) are browser automation tools that can be used for a variety of tasks. For testing, they really are about E2E/component testing, not unit testing.

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Monitoring
Centinel Analytica · April 10, 2026

Checkly is a high-programmability active monitoring solution. We support users in monitoring their websites and APIs. Puppeteer and Playwright (both supported) are browser automation tools that can be used for a variety of tasks. For testing, they really are about E2E/component testing, not unit testing.

Operator: Checkly | Type: Monitoring | Category: Monitoring

Checkly Bot is classified as monitoring. Use Centinel to monitor its behavior and decide whether to allow, block, challenge, or monetize its access to your content.

Centinel automatically detects Checkly Bot using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.

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