All options available in Playwright Check Suites

Use the checkly.config.ts/js file to define your Playwright Check Suite.

Each Playwright Check Suite can be connected to references in your playwright.config.ts/js file.

During the Alpha, a Playwright Check Suite can run up to 20 minutes. This limit can be increased/decreased after the alpha.

To add Playwright Check Suites to your Checkly monitoring setup, specify the path to your playwright.config.ts/js and add a new playwrightChecks property to the existing checks configuration in your checkly.config.ts/js.

import { defineConfig } from 'checkly'
import { Frequency } from 'checkly/constructs'

export default defineConfig({
  // ...

  checks: {
    playwrightConfigPath: './playwright.config.ts',
    playwrightChecks: [
      {
        name: 'critical-tagged',
        pwTags: 'critical',
        pwProjects: 'chromium',
        frequency: Frequency.EVERY_1M,
        locations: ['us-east-1', 'eu-west-1','eu-central-1', 'ap-south-1'],
      }
    ],
  },
})

A Playwright Check Suite requires the following properties:

• name - a human friendly name for your check suite.
• logicalId - a reference for your check suite.

Other available properties like frequency, alertChannels or locations are inherited from the general Checkly configuration if not specified otherwise.

The Checkly infrastructure will run and deploy all your existing Playwright tests (similar to what npx playwright test runs) as monitors if you don’t reference Playwright projects or tags.

Specify which tests should become part of global end-to-end monitoring by defining these properties:

• pwProjects — select existing project names from your Playwright configuration to create a Playwright Check Suite.

• pwTags — select test tags that will be grouped into a Playwright Check Suite.

You can combine pwTags and pwProjects to generate your check suite, too.

For example:

export default defineConfig({
  // ...
  checks: {
    playwrightConfigPath: './playwright.config.ts',
    playwrightChecks: [
      {
        /**
         * Run critical tagged tests in Chromium
         * every minute from 4 locations.
         */
        name: 'critical-tagged',
        pwTags: '@critical',
        pwProjects: 'chromium',
        frequency: Frequency.EVERY_1M,
        locations: ['us-east-1', 'eu-west-1','eu-central-1', 'ap-south-1'],
      },
    ],
  },
});

A Playwright Check Suite inherits multiple properties from the abstract Check class:

• name
• activated
• muted
• locations
• tags
• frequency
• alertChannels
• privateLocations
• retryStrategy
• alertEscalationPolicy

Check the reference documentation for more information on these settings.

Additionally, Playwright Check Suites provide specific configuration for your Playwright monitoring.

• installCommand: Override the command to install dependencies, by default it’ll use npm install --dev.

• testCommand: Override the command to test, by default it uses npx playwright test with the tags, projects, and config file options your check specifies.

• groupName: The group this check belongs to.

checks: {
  playwrightConfigPath: './playwright.config.ts', // specify your config file
  playwrightChecks: [
    {
      /**
       * Run `@e2e` tagged tests across browsers
       * every 5 minute from 4 locations.
       */
      // Human readable name
      name: 'E2E test suite',
      // Reference id
      logicalId: 'e2e-test-suite',
      // Playwright project references defined in `playwright.config`
      pwProjects: ['chromium', 'firefox', 'webkit'],
      // Playwright tags defined in `spec` files
      pwTags: '@e2e',
      // Override default dependencies install command
      installCommand: 'npm install --dev',
      // Override the default test command
      testCommand: 'npx playwright test --grep@checkly --config=playwright.foo.config.ts',
      // Activate the check so that it runs on a schedule, true by default
      activated: true,
      // Mute the check so that it doesn't send alerts
      muted: false,
      // Add a check to a group
      groupName: 'production-group',
      frequency: Frequency.EVERY_5M,
      locations: ['us-east-1', 'eu-west-1','eu-central-1', 'ap-south-1'],
    }
  ]
 },

Using custom dependencies in Playwright Check Suites Adding a Playwright Check Suite to a group

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