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Deadmans Switch type checks
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Uptime monitoring can be divided into roughly 2 categories
Remote Checks This is currently what checkly focuses on and is a simple check that is made from a remote server on a fixed interval and if any of these checks fail notification is sent.
Deadmanswitches These are actually the inverse, these are checks that are generated from the client and if any of these fail to report notification is sent.
These are insanely valuable for background processing or database backups where you need to verify that the job successfully completed.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch
Describe the solution you'd like I would love deadman switch type check added to checkly so we can consolidate our monitoring offering.
Describe alternatives you've considered
- http://healthchecks.io/ (open source self-hosted version available)
- https://deadmanssnitch.com/
- https://docs.opsgenie.com/docs/heartbeat-monitoring
Additional context
@drubin thanks for contributing. We use healthchecks.io ourselves. This type of check is under consideration, but not much more at this stage. We evaluated ourselves too if this would be a good new check and we did not write it off yet!
Hey all followers of this issue. I briefly unfroze this repo to inform you we just launch Heartbeats in beta on Checkly. This is a deadman's switch / cron type check as requested in this roadmap issue.
Please see the changelog announcement here and reference this issue on our new public roadmap here.