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Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

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Re: Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

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Post by jonny789 »

kayson wrote: post #12

You can also use Healthchecks[0] or Uptime-Kuma[1] both of which are open source and self-hostable! I've been using both for a while and they're great. Healtchecks has first class integration in borgmatic[3], and is in my opinion the better choice for cron jobs. Uptime-Kuma has a really nice interface and also supports checking hosts/services via ping or http request. It also supports "push" requests a la healthcheck…

I have just started using healthchecks.io . Could you tell me how to view request body part of the check using their api ?

`curl --header "X-Api-Key: your-api-key" " rel="nofollow">https://healthchecks.io/api/v1/checks/` does not contain the passed request body.

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Post by cuu508 »

jonny789 wrote: post #21
kayson wrote: post #12

You can also use Healthchecks[0] or Uptime-Kuma[1] both of which are open source and self-hostable! I've been using both for a while and they're great. Healtchecks has first class integration in borgmatic[3], and is in my opinion the better choice for cron jobs. Uptime-Kuma has a really nice interface and also supports checking hosts/services via ping or http request. It also supports "push" requests a la healthcheck…

I have just started using healthchecks.io . Could you tell me how to view request body part of the check using their api ? `curl --header "X-Api-Key: your-api-key" " rel="nofollow">https://healthchecks.io/api/v1/checks/ ` does not contain the passed request body.

The API does not return the logged request body, you can currently access it via the web UI only. Happy to discuss feature suggestions and use cases at https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/discussions !

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Post by spicybright »

gaffneyc wrote: post #20
spicybright wrote: post #18

$5/mo to monitor 3 cron jobs? And $50/mo if you want any kind of notifications from it? Am I reading that right?

Close but not quite. 1 is always free (includes email notifications) $5/month for 3 with email notifications $19/month adds integrations for notifications through services like Slack, PagerDuty, and Squadcast (among others).

Ah. Thank you for the clarification. Still a bit pricey for what it is, but that's very nice having a free tier.

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Post by gaffneyc »

spicybright wrote: post #23
gaffneyc wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Close but not quite. 1 is always free (includes email notifications) $5/month for 3 with email notifications $19/month adds integrations for notifications through services like Slack, PagerDuty, and Squadcast (among others).

Ah. Thank you for the clarification. Still a bit pricey for what it is, but that's very nice having a free tier.

Hopefully what you’re monitoring is valuable to you or the company you’re working for (otherwise why monitor it?).

If you have a personal project and need a few extra monitors (Snitches) then reach out to support. Happy to help out any way we can.

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Post by ume »

gaffneyc wrote: post #14
encoderer wrote: post #5

I’ll give credit where it’s due, Dead Mans Snitch inspired us to build Cronitor, but I’m pretty sure this is in maintenance mode. It’s a great proof of concept that something like this should exist that gives developers observability for their cron jobs and background tasks but they seemed to have stopped working on it, so we started in 2014 and have shipped about every week since. Ultimately, we believe you can’t tr…

Lead developer behind Dead Man’s Snitch here :wave: We are definitely not in “maintenance mode” and have a lot of things in the works. With the last couple of years being what they’ve been things have often taken longer than we’d like but they’re certainly in motion. edit: fixed tpyo

Great to hear. Have used Dead Man's Snitch in the past and plan to do so again in the future.

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Post by 8fingerlouie »

kayson wrote: post #12

You can also use Healthchecks[0] or Uptime-Kuma[1] both of which are open source and self-hostable! I've been using both for a while and they're great. Healtchecks has first class integration in borgmatic[3], and is in my opinion the better choice for cron jobs. Uptime-Kuma has a really nice interface and also supports checking hosts/services via ping or http request. It also supports "push" requests a la healthcheck…

I also use Healthchecks.io.

Originally i self hosted it, but their free plan is more than generous enough for my needs (20 jobs monitored for free i think).

Besides monitoring backups and cron jobs, i use it for monitoring the power state of my summerhouse. We had a problem with a breaker that would trip for no reason, and since nobody wants to arrive at a summerhouse where the fridge has been unpowered for a couple of weeks, i put a RPi Zero W up there on the circuit of the problematic breaker, and set it to call Healthchecks every 15 minutes. If it misses 2, i (might) have a problem.

So far the alarm has gone off twice, both times (fortunately) internet connection releated.

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