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This product has charges associated with it for seller support. Healthchecks, the open source cron job monitoring service: your scheduled tasks ping it over HTTP and it alerts you when a ping goes missing. Preinstalled with gunicorn and nginx; a per-instance administrator account is generated on first boot. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.
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This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.
Overview Healthchecks is the popular open source cron job monitoring service - a dead man's switch for your scheduled tasks. Every cron job, backup script, certificate renewal or batch process gets its own unique ping URL; the job requests that URL when it completes. If a ping does not arrive on schedule, Healthchecks flags the check and notifies you by email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty, webhooks and dozens of other integrations. Unlike active uptime probing, this passive model catches the jobs that silently stopped running. This image delivers Healthchecks fully installed and configured, so a complete cron monitoring platform is running within minutes of launch. The current release available is Healthchecks v4.2.
Application Stack Healthchecks runs bare-metal from the official release: the Django application is served by gunicorn behind an nginx reverse proxy on port 80, and the alert delivery daemon (sendalerts) runs as its own system service so notifications are sent the moment a check changes state. The database is SQLite on a dedicated data volume, the upstream-supported default for single-node deployments, keeping the appliance lean with no separate database server to manage.
Secure By Default On the first boot of your instance a one-shot service generates a fresh Django secret key and a fresh administrator password, unique to that instance, and writes them to a root only file. The instance's own address is configured as the site root automatically and open registration is disabled, so only the administrator can sign in or invite users. No shared or default credentials ship in the image.
Ready To Use The application, web server and alert daemon are all configured, with the application and its database on a dedicated, independently resizable storage volume. Browse to the instance address, sign in as the administrator, create your first check and add its ping URL to a cron job.
cloudimg Support 24/7 technical support by email and chat. Help with Healthchecks deployment, upgrades, notification integrations, SMTP configuration, TLS termination and database administration.
Use Cases Monitor cron jobs, backups, database dumps, certificate renewals, ETL pipelines and IoT heartbeats in your own VPC. A private, self-hosted alternative to hosted cron monitoring services for teams with data residency or compliance requirements.
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- Healthchecks, the open source cron job and scheduled task monitoring service: each job pings its own URL and you are alerted the moment a ping goes missing, preinstalled with gunicorn, nginx and the alert delivery daemon, ready to use with no manual setup
- Secure by default: a fresh administrator password and Django secret key generated for every instance on first boot and stored in a root only file, with open registration disabled and no shared credentials in the image
- 24/7 technical support from cloudimg for deployment, upgrades, notification integrations, SMTP configuration and TLS termination
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Initial release of Healthchecks cron job monitoring service.
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Connect via SSH on port 22 as the default login user for your operating system variant (the user guide lists it per variant; on Ubuntu it is 'ubuntu'). Healthchecks is served on port 80. Retrieve the generated administrator credentials with: sudo cat /root/healthchecks-credentials.txt. Browse to http://<instance-public-ip>/ and sign in with the administrator email and password from that file (the instance's address is configured as the site root on first boot; open registration is disabled). Create a check, copy its ping URL and add it to your cron job, for example: <command> && curl -fsS -m 10 --retry 5 <ping-url>. Services are managed with systemctl (nginx, healthchecks, healthchecks-sendalerts); admin tasks use sudo /usr/local/sbin/hc-manage <command>. To send email notifications, set the EMAIL_HOST settings in /opt/healthchecks/hc.env per the user guide. To enable HTTPS, follow the Let's Encrypt section of the user guide.
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