PathTest a login flow without writing Playwright: test account, cookie banner, captcha
Login is the door to everything else. When it breaks, your uptime stays green. Here is how to monitor sign-in in a real Chrome without writing a script.
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What we built, and what we learned
The technical decisions behind Pathly, the numbers we measure, and what we fix when we get it wrong.
October 2026
Uptime vs user journey monitoring: what is the difference, and which do you need?
Uptime answers “does the server respond?”. Journey monitoring answers “can a customer get to the end?”. Two questions, two tools, and an order to set them up.
ReadSlack alert when a journey fails: proof, screenshot, no noise
An uptime alert says “500”. A Flow alert says “step 3 — Pay button missing” with a screenshot. That is what Slack should get so you can act in five minutes.
ReadSynthetic monitoring vs RUM: which sees the broken journey before your customers?
RUM describes what real users already lived. Synthetics replay the critical journey even at 3 a.m. with no traffic. To alert before complaints, you need both — and a Flow that clicks.
ReadWeb agency: prove your clients’ critical journeys still work (badge + alerts)
An uptime report no longer reassures a client whose quote form is broken. Show the green journey, the badge, and the screenshot alert when it breaks.
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September 2026
How to monitor a Shopify / WooCommerce checkout funnel without an agent or script
No mandatory store app, no Playwright to maintain: you record the funnel as a shopper, Pathly replays it from the EU and alerts with a screenshot.
ReadThe Pathly Terraform provider, in practice
It is published on the registry. Here are the files you actually write: the smallest one worth having, a whole estate described as data, and taking over monitoring that was created by hand.
ReadPathly as an API, and a Terraform provider
Describing your infrastructure in files while creating your monitoring by hand means keeping two truths that eventually diverge. It can now be written as code: a documented API, and a Terraform provider.
ReadIs Datadog Synthetics too expensive for what you actually monitor? The business-journey case
Datadog Synthetics is powerful inside an existing Datadog stack. To watch three critical journeys without full APM, bill and complexity often exceed the need.
ReadA security grade from A to F, and the detail behind it
August’s audit showed it: a finding without a hierarchy helps nobody. The report now returns a score out of a hundred, its letter, and for every point lost the exact line to add to the server.
ReadCheckly vs Pathly: browser synthetics with or without writing Playwright
Checkly shines when a team already owns Playwright and wants checks as code. Pathly targets teams that must record a business journey without writing a script.
ReadUptime green, cart red: why Pingdom and UptimeRobot miss your broken checkout
An HTTP check confirms the server answers. It never clicks Pay. When the button vanishes after a release, uptime stays green and sales stop.
ReadWhen monitoring eats maintenance: false positives, scenarios, autonomous PMs
An agency contacted us because their monitoring created more work than it prevented. Too many alerts without impact, too many scenario edits on the tech side.
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August 2026
10,000 checks a day
Pathly now runs 10,000 checks a day. The number itself means nothing; what had to be fixed to get there does.
Read330 web agency sites, and an audit to redo
We pointed our checker at the websites of 330 French web agencies and IT firms. The first pass claimed a dead link on six sites in ten. That was wrong, and the mistake was ours.
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July 2026
Your data: where it lives, and for how long
Monitoring a signed-in journey means handling screenshots of authenticated sessions. So here is exactly what we do with them.
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June 2026
Why our plans are counted in browser minutes
An HTTP check and a browser journey do not cost the same, by several orders of magnitude. Putting them on one meter means overcharging for one or bleeding money on the other.
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May 2026
Why we replay your journeys in a real browser
There are three ways to test a checkout funnel. We picked the slowest and most expensive one, and here is why it is the only one that answers the question.
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April 2026
An HTTP 200 never proves a customer can pay
Monitoring is green, the homepage answers in two hundred milliseconds, and yet nobody has ordered since Tuesday. That situation is where Pathly comes from.
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