Uptime / synthetic
Healthchecks.io
open source / community (Pēteris Caune)
The dead-man's-switch for cron jobs and scheduled tasks — alerts you when an expected ping doesn't arrive.
- Category
- Uptime / synthetic
- License
- Open source
- Deployment
- SaaS or self-hosted
- Cost
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Turnkey
- Maturity
- Established
- Popularity
- Beloved niche tool; genuinely OSS + self-hostable
The catch
Deliberately narrow — it monitors that your job ran, not whether a site/API is reachable, so people repeatedly mis-buy it expecting general site monitoring.
Monitors
Synthetics
Capabilities
Alerting
Built for
HomelabSRE / DevOpsDevelopers