Unlike uptime monitoring, which actively checks your endpoints, heartbeat monitoring relies on your services to 'check in' periodically — making it ideal for monitoring cron jobs, batch processes, queue workers, or third-party integrations.
Key benefits:
- Failure detection — Get notified when expected heartbeats are missed, indicating that a task didn’t run or hung unexpectedly.
- Job visibility — Maintain awareness of recurring operations (e.g., backups, email dispatchers, report generators).
- Real-time alerts — Respond quickly to issues through integrated notification channels when a heartbeat is overdue.
To begin, create a heartbeat monitor and configure your system to send regular pings to the unique URL provided for each monitor.