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January 23rd, 2026

What’s new in January

Here’s a roundup of the new features and improvements we shipped over the past month.

Rocky AI Root Cause Analysis for all Check Types

Our AI agent Rocky can now analyze and triage failures for all uptime monitors and synthetic check types. We gave a Rocky a new set of skills to analyze trace routes, packet captures and all other artifacts generated during a check run. With these skills, you can now get:

  • Error classification: is it a typo in your code or an infrastructure error?

  • User impact: what user groups or features are impacted?

  • Root cause: what is causing the issues, what evidence do we have for it, and is there a simple code fix?

→ Learn more in our developer docs: AI Root Cause Analysis.

Private Location Dev Image

We’ve added a dev variant of the Private Location image. This image is designed for checks that rely on npm packages with native dependencies requiring compilation. It works the same way as the standard agent, but includes the build tools needed to compile native modules.

The dev agent image is available starting with version 6.3.0 and can be pulled via:

checkly/agent-dev:X.Y.Z

→ Learn more in the dev image documentation.

New Role: Read & Run

We introduced “Read & Run”, a new role for users who need to run checks and tests without being able to change configuration. It allows members to view all resources and manually trigger checks via the UI, API, or CLI, while keeping deployments and config changes locked down.

→ Read the full changelog update: Introducing the “Read & Run” role at Checkly.

Playwright Check Suites: Better Troubleshooting

We take your feedback seriously, and we’ve been focusing on one thing: making Playwright Check Suites easier to troubleshoot when things don’t go to plan. Here’s what’s new:

  • Peak memory usage is now reported in job logs: This gives you (and us) better visibility into memory consumption, so you know when it’s time to split a check into multiple suites and avoid memory pressure or out-of-memory issues.

Developer Experience

  • Product changelog overview: We’ve centralized all product changelogs in the our dev docs, including a new changelog for the Checkly agent.

  • PCAP data available via API: The check results API now exposes pcapDataUrl for packet captures on network errors (API checks only).

  • SSO visibility: You can now see whether a user is using SSO directly in the Members view (Enterprise plans only).

Fixes

  • TCP error handling: Errors and logs for failing TCP monitors weren’t always shown reliably. This has been fixed.

  • DNS monitor email alerts: Failure emails for DNS monitors now include details explaining why the check failed.

  • DNS monitor timeout: The default timeout for DNS monitors has been increased from 2s to 5s to reduce false timeouts when querying slower DNS resolvers.

  • API check failure logs: Console logs are now shown consistently when an API check fails, regardless of the failure reason.

  • Status Pages card and service reordering: Improved control over how Status Pages display cards and services.

  • Playwright Check Suites Yarn initialization. Fixed an issue with Yarn initialization that caused excessive memory usage: Less memory overhead, fewer surprises.

Happy monitoring!

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