Healthchecks.io

Is a Web Software that helps to monitor Cron jobs to make they are up.

Links: - Website - Open source: - GitHub - Docker

Endpoints

• Pinging API
  • Success (UUID): https://hc-ping.com/<uuid>
  • Start (UUID): https://hc-ping.com/<uuid>/start
  • Failure (UUID): https://hc-ping.com/<uuid>/fail
  • Log (UUID): https://hc-ping.com/<uuid>/log
  • Report script's exit status (UUID): https://hc-ping.com/<uuid>/<exit-status>

Use in script

Linux

• Quick and easy in bash using wget: wget https://hc-ping.com/<uuid> &> /dev/null

Setup

In Docker

• An image is available on Docker Hub with an example
• See also the configuration variables list
  • ALLOWED_HOSTS to * to avoid error 400 at the start
  • SECRET_KEY is defined like in Django, and can be generated as a strong password