Growing a cron job monitoring side project into a real business

Re:Growing a cron job monitoring side project into a real bu... by mherrmann on Monday February 20, 2017 @02:54AM (#13685318)

I used to use Cronitor but switched to the free (as in beer and speech) https://healthchecks.io

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Re:Growing a cron job monitoring side project into a real bu... by RandomBookmarks on Monday February 20, 2017 @08:19AM (#13686934)

This service has a very nice and honest "about" page: https://healthchecks.io/about/

"The ops team consists of a single person, so multi-hour or even multi-day outages are possible".

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Re:Growing a cron job monitoring side project into a real bu... by jazoom on Monday February 20, 2017 @04:23AM (#13685778)

Looks good.

>100 log entries per check

Do you know what that means? (On the pricing page)

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Re:Growing a cron job monitoring side project into a real bu... by cuu508 on Monday February 20, 2017 @04:39AM (#13685866)

Maintainer here! For each monitored job healthchecks.io keeps a historic log of received pings. Each log entry has time, source IP and HTTP User-Agent header. These are useful to answer questions like:

* are my pings always right on time? What's the time variance?

* what IPs am I receiving pings from?

* who's pinging me -- a wget or curl utility, somebody using a browser, or some HTTP library?

The number "100" means that for each monitored job, the service will keep 100 most recent log entries, and will prune older entries.

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Re:Growing a cron job monitoring side project into a real bu... by jazoom on Monday February 20, 2017 @04:55AM (#13685962)

Ah okay. That sounds like healthchecks.io is a perfectly usable service even on the free tier. I'll have to look into it soon.

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