02/04/2026
Healthchecks is an open-source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django.
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At Furqan Software, we run a self-hosted instance of Healthchecks to monitor scheduled tasks across several of our projects and services.
Healthchecks works on the "dead man's switch" principle — your jobs ping it after each successful run, and if a ping doesn't arrive on time, it sends out alerts. It comes with a live web dashboard, a clean API, 25+ notification integrations (Slack, email, webhooks, PagerDuty, and more), and team management features out of the box. It's a simple, no-fuss way to catch silent failures before they become real problems.
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