Glossary

Heartbeat monitoring

Heartbeat monitoring expects a scheduled job to check in, and alerts you when the expected ping doesn't arrive.

Also called a dead man's switch, heartbeat monitoring is the inverse of normal checks: instead of you polling a URL, your cron job or worker pings the monitor on schedule. If the expected ping is late, you get alerted — catching silent job failures that have no endpoint to poll.

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