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Healthchecks

Get alerted when a scheduled job or cron task stops running.

Visit Healthchecks4.6

  • Rating

    4.6 / 5

  • Pricing

    Free

  • Difficulty

    Intermediate

  • Works on

    Web

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What is Healthchecks?

Healthchecks listens for pings from your scheduled jobs, such as backups or reports, and raises an alert if one arrives late or not at all. You set a schedule and a grace time, then get notified through more than 25 integrations including Slack, Discord and Telegram. You can self-host it or use the hosted version.

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Pros: what Healthchecks does well

  • Catches jobs that silently stopped running
  • Many ways to be notified
  • Self-host it or use the hosted version

Cons: where it falls short

  • You need to add a ping to each job
  • Self-hosting needs a database

Who Healthchecks is for

Anyone who runs automatic backups or tasks and wants to know when one fails.

Who can skip it

People with no scheduled jobs to watch.

Healthchecks alternatives

Not sold on Healthchecks? These do a similar job, and each card says what it has in common.

All Automation resources

Uptime Kuma

Focus: uptime and status page. Shares monitoring and alerts with Healthchecks. Rated 4.7 (Healthchecks: 4.6).

Web AppFreeWeb
4.7Visit

ServerKit

Focus: server control panel, vps and deployment. Shares open source and monitoring with Healthchecks. A website, not a web app. Adds Linux. Rated 4.7 (Healthchecks: 4.6).

WebsiteFreeWeb, Linux
4.7Visit

Appsmith

Focus: low-code, internal tools and dashboards. Shares open source and github with Healthchecks. A no-code tool, not a web app. Rated 4.5 (Healthchecks: 4.6).

No-Code ToolFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.5Visit

First Tree

Focus: ai agents, orchestration and routing. Shares github and open source with Healthchecks. An AI tool, not a web app. Rated 4.3 (Healthchecks: 4.6).

AI ToolFreeWeb
4.3Visit

ntfy

Focus: push notifications and self-hosted. Shares alerts and open source with Healthchecks. An automation tool, not a web app. Freemium (Healthchecks: Free). Adds iOS, Android and Linux. Same 4.6 rating.

Automation ToolFree planWeb, iOS
4.6Visit

Gotify

Focus: push notifications, self-hosted and scripts. Shares alerts and open source with Healthchecks. An automation tool, not a web app. Adds Android. Rated 4.5 (Healthchecks: 4.6).

Automation ToolFreeWeb, Android
4.5Visit

Free alternatives to Healthchecks

Want to spend nothing? These free picks cover similar ground.

changedetection.io

Focus: website monitoring, change alerts and price tracking. Shares open source and github with Healthchecks. Same 4.6 rating.

Web AppFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.6Visit

Portracker

Focus: self-hosted, ports and homelab. Shares monitoring and open source with Healthchecks. Adds Linux. Same 4.6 rating.

Web AppFreeWeb, Linux
4.6Visit

Umami

Focus: web analytics, privacy and self-hosted. Shares open source and github with Healthchecks. Same 4.6 rating.

Web AppFreeWeb
4.6Visit

Composerize

Focus: docker, docker compose and devops. Shares open source with Healthchecks. A website, not a web app. Rated 4.5 (Healthchecks: 4.6).

WebsiteFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.5Visit

ConvertX

Focus: file converter, documents and self-hosted. Shares open source and github with Healthchecks. Adds Linux. Rated 4.5 (Healthchecks: 4.6).

Web AppFreeWeb, Linux
4.5Visit

AgentGlass

Focus: ai agents, cost tracking and observability. Shares monitoring and open source with Healthchecks. Adds macOS and Linux. Rated 4.4 (Healthchecks: 4.6).

Web AppFreeWeb, macOS
4.4Visit
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