Case Study: commercetools increased Merchant Center deployment frequency 7x with Checkly
Key results
The challenge
Before adopting Checkly, commercetools relied on infrequent manual deployments across many teams, with only basic uptime checks and no deeper service validation. Engineers manually verified deployments, and issues were often discovered only after they had already affected end users.
The solution
commercetools integrated Checkly directly into its CI/CD pipeline using the Checkly CLI and a Monitoring as Code workflow, adding Playwright browser checks, API checks, and heartbeat checks triggered after each deployment via CircleCI. A tagging system let the team run targeted groups of checks for specific deployment scenarios.
“Checkly's CLI automated our deployment monitoring, making deployments stress-free and routine, something we are grateful for.”
TDTobias DeekensRemote Principal Engineer for Frontend Architecture, commercetools
The results, in context
commercetools increased deployment frequency from less than once a week to at least once a day across 16 Merchant Center frontend applications. The Checkly CLI reduced the cost of integrating monitoring into new environments by 80%, and mean time to detect fell from more than ten minutes to sub-minute, giving roughly 10x faster issue detection.