Healthchecks.io Reviews and details

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• Show HN: I built a self-hosted status page and monitoring tool for my projects

  Hey mate, I'm using https://healthchecks.io/ for heartbeat monitoring my crons. It's been working flawlessly for quite some time now. The UI is super clean and easy to navigate. It's also free up to 20 monitored jobs. Note - I'm not in any way related to that project. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• Webhooks suck, but here are alternatives

  In fact, your platform (https://healthchecks.io/) is a prime example of where running customer wasm would be really excellent. Instead of sending webhooks out to customer configured URLs, you could run a Wasm environment to execute customer code. Off hand, a good use case here is to do further inspection of the event before it gets sent off to some other system - maybe there are cases where you send... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

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

  Healthchecks.io — Monitor your cron jobs and background tasks. Free for up to 20 checks. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• What do you use for external monitoring?

  I use healthchecks.io and have been very happy. Source: 5 months ago

• What do you use for external monitoring?

  With Uptime Kuma and healthchecks.io, you can do everything. Uptime Kuma to monitor "services" (web server, database), and healthchecks to monitor punctual jobs (backup jobs, etc). Source: 5 months ago

• Show HN: OnlineOrNot – Cron Job Monitoring

  Is there anything different from https://healthchecks.io/ --- a service I've been using for free for a couple years now? - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Prioritize IPv4 over IPv6 in dual stack

  Because of this block on the router, and the fact that IPv6 connections are by default preferred over IPv4, many things on the system now cannot access the internet. The only things that can access the internet are for accessing servers that ONLY support IPv4 like my mail.smpt2go or my uptime monitoring scripts for healthchecks.io. Source: 7 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

  A service in a very similar vein is https://healthchecks.io/ - which also provides a nice perspective on how low-effort the setup for a service with a substantial amount of users can be. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31488910 The blog also contains a bunch of useful information and guides around the topic, including various unusual configurations... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Detecting and alerting for power failures

  I use https://healthchecks.io/ and highly recommend it. Source: 10 months ago

• Detecting and alerting for power failures

  You can use a service like https://healthchecks.io/ for example. There is an article describing the idea here: https://www.signl4.com/blog/monitoring-still-alive-heartbeat-check/. Source: 10 months ago

• Managing re-occurring tasks - Daily/weekly/monthly

  We use a heartbeat system. Basically the monitoring continuously sends an alert to a healtcheck system. If that heartbeat fails, PagerDuty sends an alert to the oncall. Source: 10 months ago

• Cartun: The Ultimate Solution for Device Monitoring

  There are some good (free!) monitors out there, I have used and like healthchecks.io and cronitor.io. Source: 11 months ago

• Healthchecks.io setup

  I don't run healthchecks for containers themselves, but for the server as a whole. I use Uptime Kuma in a docker container, setting it to ping to a configured check remotely on healthchecks.io every 15 minutes. That way if my server loses internet or something major goes wrong, I'll get an email. But I 'm the only one that uses my services besides Plex, so if something goes wrong with them individually, it isn't a... Source: 11 months ago

• Upstream DNS providers tested: Quad9, Cloudflare for Families, DNS0.eu, CleanBrowsing and Comodo Secure DNS

  I recently found https://healthchecks.io/ and it's been working well. Source: 11 months ago

• Internet connection keeps breaking down. Is there a self hosted tool to measure connectivity?

  Smokeping or Uptime Kuma with pinging a link from healthchecks.io. Source: 11 months ago

• Power Outage notification

  What you want is healthchecks.io as seen here https://youtu.be/U20GL8j53qg?t=276. Source: 11 months ago

• Second WAN just for notifications

  I recommend using an external service like https://healthchecks.io/ and send heartbeats from Zabbix. If x amount of heartbeats fail, then you get an alert of your choice. This way you also get notified if Zabbix stops working for any other reason. Source: 11 months ago

• ntfy is an open source tool to send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST. It now supports making phone calls, access tokens, user account sync, Prometheus metrics, structured logging, and more 🥳

  Official support in healthchecks.io, Uptime Kuma, Radarr, Sonarr, Shoutrrr, Gatus, and many more! Source: 11 months ago

• Since sending an email in Task Scheduler is deprecated what is your solution? Looking for simple and lightweight.

  Healthchecks.io (free,paid, or self-hosted) and have your job(s) curl the URL for a healthcheck. It can trigger the email when it gets the request or a period of time after it doesn't get the request in a specified timeframe. This lets you send alerts that it worked, and alerts when a job fails to report in so you don't miss failing jobs. Source: 12 months ago

• Is there any admin ability to email users?

  Healthchecks is probably what you’re looking for. Run a timed script on the OS of your liking, when you lose power the script stops and healthchecks send you an email. You can have 20 monitors for free. Https://healthchecks.io/. Source: 12 months ago