Healthchecks
Cron job and scheduled task monitoring
Healthchecks is a self-hosted service that monitors cron jobs and scheduled tasks using dead man's switch pings. It targets administrators who need to know when a recurring job silently fails. It is deployed via Docker or a Django install.
Key features
- Dead man's switch for cron jobs
- Many notification integrations
- Per-check schedules and grace
- REST API
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Catches silently failing jobs
- Lots of notification channels
- Lightweight
Trade-offs
- Narrow use case
- Not for metrics
Healthchecks replaces
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