Quick Start

Add your first monitor and receive your first alert in under 5 minutes.

Step 1 — Create a monitor

Click + New Monitor in the dashboard. Give it a descriptive name and pick either a simple interval or a cron expression schedule that matches your script.

Step 2 — Copy your ping URL

Once created, your monitor will be assigned a unique ping URL. This is the URL your job needs to request when it finishes.

Step 3 — Add to your cron job

Append the HTTP request to the end of your scheduled script. Here are examples for common languages.

# Using cron
0 * * * * /path/to/script.sh && curl -fsS -m 10 --retry 3 https://healthycron.io/ping/{uuid} > /dev/null

var client = new HttpClient();
try 
{
    // Execute your heavy background job
    await RunBackupJobAsync();
    
    // Ping to indicate success
    await client.GetAsync("https://healthycron.io/ping/{uuid}");
}
catch (Exception)
{
    // Ping the failure endpoint to trigger immediate alert
    await client.GetAsync("https://healthycron.io/ping/{uuid}/fail");
    throw;
}

import requests

def run_job():
    try:
        # Do some work
        process_data()
        
        # Signal success
        requests.get('https://healthycron.io/ping/{uuid}', timeout=10)
    except Exception as e:
        # Signal failure
        requests.get('https://healthycron.io/ping/{uuid}/fail', timeout=10)
        raise e

Step 4 — Trigger a test ping

Open your terminal and make an HTTP request to your monitor's URL to confirm it works. The status indicator on your dashboard will immediately turn green.

curl -fsS https://healthycron.io/ping/{your-uuid}