Healthchecks.io Cron Job Monitoring and Alerting Platform

Healthchecks.io is an open-source cron and background task monitoring platform that alerts when scheduled jobs fail to ping on time. It gives teams a dashboard, API, and notification integrations for tracking recurring jobs without building their own heartbeat system.

Prerequisites

Python 3.12+, PostgreSQL/MySQL/MariaDB

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• git clone https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks.git
• pip install -r healthchecks/requirements.txt -r healthchecks/requirements-dev.txt
• pip uninstall -y pycurl
• pip install pycurl==$PYCURL_VERSION --compile --no-cache-dir

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• Python 3.12+
• A Dockerfile
• and pre-built Docker images are

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• Run tests:

• Run development server:

• in this file. You can copy the provided hc/local_settings.py.example as

• Source: https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://healthchecks.io/docs/

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange