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