Heartbeat Monitoring
Passive monitoring.Zero silent failures.
Secure your silent background tasks. Validate backups, cron jobs, and internal workers through inbound telemetry, ensuring your infrastructure stays alive even behind restrictive firewalls.
The Inbound Monitoring Logic
Unlike traditional active polling, Heartbeat monitoring (also known as Cron Monitoring) works in reverse. Your server or script notifies us that it is functioning as intended.
- Reverse Polling: Your system sends a ping to a unique URL, eliminating the need for open inbound ports or complex firewall rules.
- Silent Task Guard: Ideal for monitoring daily database backups, import scripts, and periodic background workers that run in the shadows.
- Intranet Security: Perfect for monitoring devices or services behind NAT or firewalls that can only send outbound requests.
Interval & Grace Period Control
Fine-tune your alerts to match the reality of your background tasks. Configure exactly how often you expect a signal and how much delay is acceptable.
- Expected Intervals: Define custom frequencies ranging from high-velocity minutely workers to 24-hour daily backup cycles.
- Smart Grace Periods: Set a buffer time to allow for natural variations in task duration, preventing false alarms during long-running imports.
- Failure Calculation: Automatically trigger 'Heartbeat missing' alerts the moment the interval plus your defined grace period is exceeded.
Seamless Integration Suite
Integrate Heartbeat monitoring into any environment using standard system tools. Our monitoring endpoint is compatible with any language that supports HTTP requests.
- Linux & Unix Support: Simple one-line integration for Bash scripts and Cronjobs using standard tools like curl.
- Windows PowerShell: Native support for Windows-based scheduled tasks via Invoke-RestMethod.
- Application Workers: Easily ping our secure API from within your Node.js, Python, or PHP worker environments.
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