Monitor Any Scheduled Job With Heartbeat Checks

Automatic notifications when your backups or scheduled tasks don’t run as expected. Compatible with your existing toolset.

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Monitor Your Services With a Unique Checkly URL

Monitor your servers' automated jobs with Checkly Heartbeat monitoring. Define your job's expected execution interval, ping Checkly after successful execution, and get alerted if Checkly didn't receive the HTTP ping.

How to monitor your scheduled jobs

Scheduled jobs are business critical. But also, easy to forget. Whether it’s cron jobs, backups, database updates, schedulers sending emails, or any other scheduled tasks, you create them once and remember they exist when they fail. Checkly’s Heartbeat Checks help you prevent business losses by notifying the right person when things are broken.

  1. Create your heartbeat check

    Choose the scheduled action you want to monitor and define how often you expect it to send a heartbeat to Checkly. Plan for variability in execution times and adjust as you learn. Every created heartbeat check defines a unique Checkly URL for you to ping.

    import { HeartbeatCheck } from 'checkly/constructs'

new HeartbeatCheck('heartbeat-check-1', {
  name: 'Weekly backup job',
  period: 7,
  periodUnit: 'days',
  grace: 2,
  graceUnit: 'hours',
})

  2. Add a ping event to your job

    Use the quick-start guide provided in Checkly, or one of our documented examples to add a reliable check-in from your job. Ping your heartbeat endpoint to signal that your scheduled action succeeded.

    # Perform your backup and once all commands succeeded 
# Ping your unique heartbeat URL to signal that everything's operational
curl -m 5 --retry 3 https://ping.checklyhq.com/f0e0b1d3-665d-49d0-8bf0-3e6504c3d372

  3. Set up your alerting channels

    Add any of Checkly’s alerting channels, ensuring your team gets the right information at the right time if a job fails to complete. With Checkly your team are the first to know when something is wrong.

    import { HeartbeatCheck, OpsgenieAlertChannel } from 'checkly/constructs'

// Create an alert channel ...
const opsGenieChannel = new OpsgenieAlertChannel('opsgenie-channel-1', {
  name: 'My Ops Team',
  region: 'EU',
  priority: 'P1',
  apiKey: 'xxxx123abc'
})

// and assign it to your Heartbeat check
new HeartbeatCheck('heartbeat-check-1', {
  name: 'Weekly backup job',
  period: 7,
  periodUnit: 'days',
  grace: 2,
  graceUnit: 'hours',
  alertChannels: [opsGenieChannel]
})

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You only need an HTTP call

Checkly is compatible with the tools you’re already using. You only need to make an HTTP call to implement it. Don’t let the failure of your daily or monthly reports, database backups, import and sync jobs, antivirus scans, and other background jobs damage your business.

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