Healthchecks VS Statping

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 false-positives and needlessly trigger external system alerts. The customer Wasm could do more introspection on the healthcheck event and make a more informed decision about how to proceed.

i use healthchecks.io and have been very happy

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)

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 do the same thing Sentry, Uptime Robot, ...

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 (arduino/esp8266) as well as information on self-hosting.

i use https://healthchecks.io/ and highly recommend it.

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/.

i like healthchecks.io

2. Statping

Statping - I use it mainly to keep track of the apps I run :)

It's not really well maintained - https://github.com/statping/statping/issues/1042 - however the functionality is there, and it worked just fine for me, but in case you run into any bugs it'll probably not be fixed.

FYI that statping is no longer maintained and quite unusable for some people: https://github.com/statping/statping/issues/980

You could give a try to statping (https://github.com/statping/statping). From what I know it works fine with localhost, has a nice GUI and many outputs (slack, mail, sms, we hooks...).