Introduction

HealthyCron is a service for monitoring cron jobs and similar periodic processes. It works as a dead man's switch for processes that need to run continuously or on a regular, known schedule.

• HealthyCron listens for HTTP requests (pings) from your scheduled tasks.
• It keeps silent as long as pings arrive on time.
• It raises an alert as soon as a ping does not arrive on time.

Some examples of jobs that would benefit from HealthyCron monitoring:

• Filesystem and database backups
• Task queues
• Database replication monitoring scripts
• Report generation scripts
• Periodic data import and sync jobs
• Periodic antivirus scans
• DDNS updater scripts
• SSL renewal scripts