Healthchecks

Healthchecks is a self-hosted cron job monitoring service. It listens for HTTP/email pings from your cron jobs and scheduled tasks, and sends alerts when they don't arrive on schedule.

Features

• Cron Job Monitoring - Create checks with expected schedules, get alerted on missed pings
• Multiple Ping Protocols - HTTP, email, and slug-based endpoints
• 30+ Integrations - Slack, Telegram, PagerDuty, Webhooks, and more
• Grace Periods - Configurable grace time before alerting
• Team Support - Invite team members with read-only or read-write access
• Embedded SQLite - No external database required

First Login

Access the web UI at your domain. Log in with the superuser account configured via SUPERUSER_EMAIL and SUPERUSER_PASSWORD environment variables.

What You Can Do After Deployment

1. Open your domain — access the Healthchecks dashboard
2. Log in — use the superuser credentials from your environment variables
3. Create checks — add new cron job monitors with expected ping intervals
4. Set up integrations — configure Slack, Telegram, email, or webhook notifications
5. Add ping URLs to your cron jobs — each check provides a unique URL to ping on success

Environment Variables

Variable	Description
SUPERUSER_EMAIL	Email for the admin account
SUPERUSER_PASSWORD	Password for the admin account
SITE_ROOT	Public URL of the instance (auto-set to your Zeabur domain)
SECRET_KEY	Django secret key (auto-generated)
PUID	User ID for file permissions
PGID	Group ID for file permissions

License

BSD-3-Clause — GitHub