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Healthchecks

Cron job and scheduled task monitoring

Monitoring & Status ★ 10.2k stars Easy setup BSD-3-Clause

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

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