About Healthchecks.io
A monitoring service for cron jobs, background workers, and scheduled tasks. It uses a dead man's switch approach, sending alerts when a scheduled job fails to 'ping' the service on time. It is available as a hosted service or can be self-hosted.
Healthchecks.io is a specialized monitoring service designed to track cron jobs, background processes, and other scheduled tasks. It operates on a 'dead man's switch' principle: each task sends a 'ping' upon successful completion. If a ping is missed, Healthchecks.io sends an alert. This makes it ideal for catching silent failures in automated jobs like backups, data syncs, and report generation. The platform offers a free tier for hobbyists and is also available as an open-source, self-hostable project. Paid plans provide higher limits and additional features like SMS and phone call alerts. It supports a wide range of integrations with popular services like Slack, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, and more. The user interface is clean and focused, providing a live dashboard, detailed event logs, and configurable checks. For developers and DevOps teams, it's a simple, reliable, and effective tool for ensuring critical background tasks are running as expected.
Pros & Cons
- Simple and effective 'dead man's switch' approach for monitoring scheduled tasks.
- Generous free tier for up to 20 checks.
- Fully open-source with the option to self-host.
- Supports a wide range of notification integrations.
- Clean, fast user interface with a focus on core functionality.
- The service is run by a single person, which could be a risk for enterprise users concerned about support and uptime guarantees.
- Not a general-purpose server or website uptime monitor; it is specifically for scheduled tasks.
- Phone call and SMS alerts are only available on paid plans.
Features
Key features
Get alerts when nightly backups, weekly reports, cron jobs, and other scheduled tasks don't run on time.
Set expected periodicity and grace time for each task. Checks can also be defined using cron expressions.
Receive notifications through various channels including email, webhooks, Slack, PagerDuty, and Microsoft Teams.
View a real-time list of all monitored checks, their status (Up, Late, Down), and toggle integrations.
Each check includes a detailed log of received pings and sent 'Down' notifications for debugging.
Additional features
Display the status of your checks on READMEs, dashboards, or status pages using public but hard-to-guess URLs.
A management API allows for programmatic control over checks, integrations, and other account settings.
The entire codebase is open source under a BSD license, allowing for self-hosting and custom modifications.
Group checks and integrations into projects and grant team members read-only or read-write access.
Jobs can explicitly report failures by pinging a specific URL, triggering immediate alerts.
Measure the execution time of your jobs by sending 'start' and 'success' signals.
Attach logs and diagnostic information to pings for easier troubleshooting when a job fails.
Pricing
Monthly plans
- Monitor 20 jobs
- 100 log entries per job
- Monitor 20 jobs
- 100 log entries per job
Offered for users who fit the Hobbyist plan but wish to support the service financially.
Source: vendor pricing page →- Monitor 100 jobs
- 1000 log entries per job
- 50 SMS & WhatsApp credits
- 20 phone call credits
- Email support
- Monitor 1000 jobs
- 1000 log entries per job
- 500 SMS & WhatsApp credits
- 100 phone call credits
- Priority email support
Annual plans
- Monitor 100 jobs
- 1000 log entries per job
- 50 SMS & WhatsApp credits
- 20 phone call credits
- Email support
Saves 20% compared to monthly billing.
Source: vendor pricing page →- Monitor 1000 jobs
- 1000 log entries per job
- 500 SMS & WhatsApp credits
- 100 phone call credits
- Priority email support
Saves 20% compared to monthly billing.
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About Healthchecks.io
A monitoring service for cron jobs, background workers, and scheduled tasks. It uses a dead man's switch approach, sending alerts when a scheduled job fails to 'ping' the service on time. It is available as a hosted service or can be self-hosted.
Healthchecks.io Details
Healthchecks.io's In-App Market Place
Does Healthchecks.io have an in-app market place?
Yes
How many Mini-Apps in the marketplace?
0
Mini Apps
Pricing Options
Plans
Monthly plans
- Monitor 20 jobs
- 100 log entries per job
- Monitor 20 jobs
- 100 log entries per job
Offered for users who fit the Hobbyist plan but wish to support the service financially.
Source: vendor pricing page →- Monitor 100 jobs
- 1000 log entries per job
- 50 SMS & WhatsApp credits
- 20 phone call credits
- Email support
- Monitor 1000 jobs
- 1000 log entries per job
- 500 SMS & WhatsApp credits
- 100 phone call credits
- Priority email support
Annual plans
- Monitor 100 jobs
- 1000 log entries per job
- 50 SMS & WhatsApp credits
- 20 phone call credits
- Email support
Saves 20% compared to monthly billing.
Source: vendor pricing page →- Monitor 1000 jobs
- 1000 log entries per job
- 500 SMS & WhatsApp credits
- 100 phone call credits
- Priority email support
Saves 20% compared to monthly billing.
Source: vendor pricing page →Accepted Payment Currencies
USD
Pros & Cons
- Simple and effective 'dead man's switch' approach for monitoring scheduled tasks.
- Generous free tier for up to 20 checks.
- Fully open-source with the option to self-host.
- Supports a wide range of notification integrations.
- Clean, fast user interface with a focus on core functionality.
- The service is run by a single person, which could be a risk for enterprise users concerned about support and uptime guarantees.
- Not a general-purpose server or website uptime monitor; it is specifically for scheduled tasks.
- Phone call and SMS alerts are only available on paid plans.
Healthchecks.io's Support Options
Email Address
contact@healthchecks.ioDocumentation
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