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

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  • Healthchecks

    Open-source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django

  • 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 healthchecks but there's a weird race condition bug that makes it misfire (PR is waiting to be merged). It also has status dashboards with incidents.

    [0] https://healthchecks.io/

    [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

    [3] https://torsion.org/borgmatic/

  • uptime-kuma

    A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

  • 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 healthchecks but there's a weird race condition bug that makes it misfire (PR is waiting to be merged). It also has status dashboards with incidents.

    [0] https://healthchecks.io/

    [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

    [3] https://torsion.org/borgmatic/

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    Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations

  • 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 healthchecks but there's a weird race condition bug that makes it misfire (PR is waiting to be merged). It also has status dashboards with incidents.

    [0] https://healthchecks.io/

    [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

    [3] https://torsion.org/borgmatic/

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