Monitor cron jobs and scheduled tasks

Navigate to the heartbeats dashboard, then click Add heartbeat.

Enter a name, reporting period, and grace period:

Reporting period

The "Expect a heartbeat every" field is the reporting period. Enter how often your cron job runs.

Example: A daily database backup would use 24 hours.

Grace period

The grace period is how late the job can be before OnlineOrNot alerts you.

Example: If your backup can run up to 30 minutes late, enter 30 minutes.

Get your heartbeat URL

After saving, you'll see the URL for your check:

Add the heartbeat to your job

Add a curl request to your cron job:

# my crontab
30  18  *   *   *   backup_db_to_r2 && curl https://oonchk.com/xxxxxxxxx

The && ensures the heartbeat only fires if the job succeeds.