Cronnection VS Dead Man's Snitch

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• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Deadmanssnitch.com — Monitoring for cron jobs. One free snitch (monitor), more if you refer others to sign up. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: How do you monitor your systemd services?

  If you are ok with a Saas and if it's just scheduled jobs that you are monitoring, there are a number of monitoring tools where you tell when job completes (with a http request) and a missing ping (after a grace period) means that it failed. I think https://deadmanssnitch.com/ may have been the original service for this. https://healthchecks.io/ has a fairly generous free tier that I use now. There are others that... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

  There's a great service already existing with a riff on that name, even - https://deadmanssnitch.com/ DMS is useful for stuff like crons where you're trying to monitor an event that happened rather than whether a service is online. No way to ping a cronjob from the outside world, but the cron can report that it ran successfully. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

  Sounds like https://deadmanssnitch.com with a bigger free plan, or is there a fundamental difference? - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Observability is becoming mission critical, but who watches the watchmen?

  As for any specific tool or service to help you with this, it's totally up to you. Popular solutions include Dead Man's Snitch , Cronitor and Healthchecks.io with the last one being available as open-source in addition to their managed offering. But in reality, you could very well hack something together yourself that would do the job just fine. The important part here is that it needs to serve as a dead man's... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago