Heartbeat Monitoring

The Dead Man's Switch for Your Applications

Let your apps ping us periodically. When the heartbeat stops, we alert you. Perfect for background workers, long-running processes, and anything that runs silently until it doesn't.

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Silent Failures Are the Worst Kind

Your backups, queue workers, sync jobs, and batch processes run in the background. When they fail, nobody notices. Until a user asks why their report is missing. Heartbeats catch these failures immediately.

 

Simple. Reliable. Language-Agnostic.

HTTP Heartbeat Pings

One HTTP GET from your application to our unique endpoint. That's it.

Custom Expected Intervals

Define how often to expect heartbeats — every minute, hour, day, or anything in between.

Grace Periods

Buffer time before alerting. Avoid false alarms for jobs with variable runtime.

Works in Any Language

Python, PHP, Node, Go, Bash, PowerShell — any environment that can make an HTTP request.

Full Run History

See every heartbeat received, missed run, and resolved incident.

Multi-Channel Alerts

Alerts via Email, Slack, WhatsApp, SMS, webhook — on missed heartbeats and on recovery.

 

What to Monitor

Background Workers

Queue processors, message consumers, and long-running tasks.

Scheduled Jobs

Cron jobs, scheduled functions, timer-based work.

Automation Scripts

Backup scripts, sync tools, monitoring agents.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

Heartbeat monitoring is a passive monitoring technique: your application sends periodic pings to confirm it's running. When those pings stop arriving, we alert you — even if everything looks fine from the outside.

Cron job monitoring is a specific use case of heartbeat monitoring. Heartbeats work for any periodic process — not just cron schedules. Long-running daemons, queue workers, and any "should be running" service benefits from heartbeats.

Each heartbeat gets a unique URL. Add a simple HTTP GET (via curl, requests library, fetch, etc.) at key points in your code — at the end of successful runs, after writing output, or on a timer.

Yes. As long as your code can make an outbound HTTPS request, it can send heartbeats. Works from servers, containers, serverless functions, edge workers, and IoT devices.

When the next ping arrives, we mark the incident as resolved and optionally send a recovery notification on your alert channels.