Core product
Checkly
Monitoring reliability: synthetics, uptime, status pages, dashboards, AI RCA on checks.
Owlpane
Application observability: traces, logs, metrics, Kubernetes, SLOs; uptime checks are one feature.
Owlpane / Solutions / vs. Checkly
Moving from another tool · built on OpenTelemetryOwlpane vs. Checkly: different jobs, often complementary.
Checkly is built for detect–communicate–resolve: uptime monitors, Playwright browser checks, API checks, status pages and AI root-cause analysis on check failures. Owlpane includes uptime checks and RUM (beta) inside a broader OpenTelemetry platform — traces, logs, Kubernetes and SLOs — and routes alerts to the on-call tool you already use.
Switching, honestly
What you keep, gain and give up
Keep
Checkly for Playwright synthetics, global check locations, status pages and modular Detect/Communicate/Resolve pricing if that is your primary reliability product.
Gain
Backend traces, logs, errors grouped by release, service map, Kubernetes state and Carbon on the same workspace as your uptime checks — one ingest key for application telemetry.
Give up
Checkly depth on synthetics: 22 public locations, visual regression, private locations, heartbeat monitors and dedicated status-page/incident comms modules.
What you use
Built from features that ship today
Uptime checksRUM & uptime
IncidentsAlerting & SLOs
Errors tied to releasesAPM & tracing
InvestigationsAI & MCP
Errors tied to releases
When a check fails, jump to backend errors and traces for the same route.
APM & tracing →Investigations
Save links and notes while you correlate a failed check with deploys and logs.
AI & MCP →How it works
Three steps
01
Keep Checkly checks
Leave synthetics where they are.
02
Add OTLP
Instrument the APIs and browsers Checkly hits with OpenTelemetry.
03
Correlate
When a check fails, open the same route in Owlpane for traces, logs and the latest deploy.
Side by side
What each one charges for
| Checkly (public pricing summary, 2026) | Owlpane | |
|---|---|---|
| Detect (Team) | $80/mo annual Detect + monitors and check run bundles | Uptime checks on platform plans; telemetry billed by GB ingested |
| Browser checks | 12,000 included runs/mo on Team; Playwright suites | RUM beta; HTTP uptime checks, not Playwright suite product |
| Status pages | Communicate module from $34/mo Team (annual) | Not offered — use Checkly or Statuspage beside Owlpane |
| AI on failures | Resolve module with AI RCA invocations | Ask and investigations; no check-specific RCA SKU |
| Traces and logs | Not the primary product | Core product — OpenTelemetry ingest |
Checkly figures come from public checklyhq.com/pricing summaries in October 2026; modules stack (Detect + Communicate + Resolve). Many teams run Checkly for synthetics and Owlpane for backend telemetry. Checkly pricing · Checkly · Estimate Owlpane with the cost calculator
What matters most
Where each platform wins
Browser testing
Checkly
Playwright check suites, multistep API checks, visual regression on Team+.
Owlpane
RUM and session replay in beta; uptime checks are HTTP/TLS focused, not full Playwright flows.
Communications
Checkly
Status pages, subscribers, incident management on Team plan.
Owlpane
Alerts to Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie; no hosted status-page product.
Pricing model
Checkly
Detect + Communicate + Resolve modules with included runs and overage tables.
Owlpane
GB ingested for telemetry; uptime checks included in platform plans — see pricing for limits.
Backend correlation
Checkly
AI RCA on check failures; integrations to observability tools.
Owlpane
Failed check → same workspace traces, logs and releases without a third integration.
Questions
Should we replace Checkly with Owlpane?
Usually no. Replace Checkly only if HTTP uptime checks are enough and you do not need Playwright flows, status pages or Checkly’s global runner network.
Does Owlpane include AI RCA on check failures?
Not as a dedicated Resolve module. You can investigate with Ask and save an investigation board linking the check, traces and logs.
Where Owlpane is narrower
- No Playwright synthetic product, visual regression or 22-location runner network.
- No status pages, subscriber management or Communicate module equivalent.
Comparisons reflect publicly available information as of September 2026 and our own product today, and may change. Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Dash0, Better Stack, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS, Sentry, Dynatrace, Kubeshark, Checkly, PagerDuty, SigNoz, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and other names are trademarks of their respective owners; Owlpane is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
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