Healthchecks.io — Developer Tools

What Is Healthchecks.io?

Healthchecks.io is a hosted cron job monitoring service. It sends you an alert when your nightly backups, weekly reports, cron jobs, and other scheduled tasks do not run on time. Each job gets a unique ping URL; if the job fails to ping by its expected time, Healthchecks.io notifies you via email, SMS, push notification, or integrations like Slack, PagerDuty, and more.

Who Is It For?

Healthchecks.io is ideal for developers, system administrators, and DevOps engineers who need to monitor background jobs, cron-based workflows, and scheduled scripts across servers. It's also a fit for any team that relies on automated tasks—like scheduled data exports or regular health checks—and wants to know immediately when something fails. It is not designed for general uptime monitoring of websites or APIs.

Key Features & Integrations

You can configure each check with a period and grace time, or use cron expressions for irregular schedules. The live dashboard shows check status (New, Up, Late, Down) and provides an event log of all pings and alerts. Integrations include Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, GitHub Issues, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, SMS, Phone Call, Pushover, and many more. Public status badges are available for documentation or README files.

Real-World Use Cases

Common uses include monitoring nightly database backup scripts, weekly report generation, daily data syncs, and custom daemon processes. For example, a team can set up a check for their nightly backup cron job: if the job fails to ping, the team gets an immediate Slack alert before the next business day begins.

• Simple Ping Monitoring — Generate a unique URL per job; your script sends an HTTP request every time it runs.
• Period & Grace Time — Set expected run frequency and how late a ping can be before you're alerted.
• Cron Expression Support — Define expected ping dates/times using cron syntax for irregular schedules.
• Live Dashboard — View all checks with status colors (New, Up, Late, Down) and filter by tags.
• Event Log — See a time-stamped log of every ping received and each notification sent.
• 30+ Integrations — Get alerts via Email, Webhooks, Slack, Discord, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, SMS, Phone Call, and more.
• Public Status Badges — Embed badge URLs in READMEs or dashboards to show job status externally.

Healthchecks.io pricing: from $0/mo.

For comparison: the median starting price in Developer Tools is $19.99/month, measured across 301 tools we track. See the full SaaS Pricing Index →

Hobbyist ($0/mo)

Monitor 20 jobs, 100 log entries per job. No credit card required.

Supporter ($5/mo)

Monitor 20 jobs, 100 log entries per job. Same limits as Hobbyist — pay to support the project.

Business ($20/mo)

Monitor 100 jobs, 1000 log entries per job. Includes 50 SMS & WhatsApp credits, 20 phone call credits, and email support.

Business Plus ($80/mo)

Monitor 1000 jobs, 1000 log entries per job. Includes 500 SMS & WhatsApp credits, 100 phone call credits, and priority email support.

Annual billing saves 20% (e.g., Business $192/yr, Business Plus $768/yr). Free Business plan available for open-source projects and nonprofits.

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