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Cron & Heartbeats Coming soon

The job that quietly stopped running.

Nothing fails louder than a backup you find out was never running. Heartbeats invert the check: your job pings us, and silence is the alert.

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Heartbeats · last 23 runs

1 incident open
  • nightly-backup every 24 h
  • invoice-run every 1 h
  • search-reindex every 15 min
  • queue-worker every 5 min
On time Late, inside grace Missed

Cron & Heartbeats, in detail.

Silence is the signal

Give a heartbeat an expected period and a grace period. One line at the end of your job pings the URL. Miss the window and an incident opens on its own.

Report failure explicitly

A /fail endpoint lets a job report that it ran and went wrong. That is a different problem from not running at all, and worth telling apart at three in the morning.

Anything on a schedule

Nightly backups, billing runs, queue workers, ETL jobs, certificate renewals, data exports. If it should have happened by now and didn’t, that’s worth knowing.

Report failure explicitly

Checkout API is down

Monitor
Checkout API
Target
https://api.acme.com/checkout
Reason
HTTP 503 on 3 consecutive checks
Confirmed by
N. Virginia, Frankfurt
Since
09:12:04 UTC

Sent once, per channel

  • Email Delivered
  • Slack Delivered
  • Microsoft Teams Delivered
  • Webhook Signed · 200

The specifics

Heartbeat options

Written out in full, because “monitoring” means something different at every vendor.

Expected period
How often the job should check in
Grace period
How late is still acceptable before an incident opens
Endpoints
A ping URL, plus /fail to report an explicit failure
Alerts
Dedicated webhook event for missed heartbeats

Works with

Every part of StatusCheck is on every plan. These are the pieces this one talks to most.

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