Heartbeat Monitoring
Freshby Better Stack
Scheduled-job liveness check via periodic HTTP ping with configurable grace periodsEngineers running background workers and cron jobs need to know when a job silently stops runningFree tier
Cron and scheduled-job monitoring that alerts when a job fails to check in within its expected interval.
Features
Multi-region Uptime Probingall plansScreenshot on Failureall plansOn-call Scheduling & Escalationspaid onlyAI SRE Root Cause Analysispaid onlySlack/Teams Incident Channel Integrationpaid onlyStatus Page Subscriber Notificationsall plansWhite-label Status Pagespaid onlySSO via Googleall plansSSO via Azure AD / Oktaenterprise onlyAudit Logsenterprise onlySession Replayall plansSQL Log Queryingpaid onlyS3 Log Archivalpaid onlyeBPF Service Mappaid onlyOpenTelemetry-native Ingestionpaid onlyPlaywright Transaction Monitoringpaid onlyReporting & Analytics Add-onpaid onlyAnomaly Detectionpaid onlyIP Allowlisting for Status Pagespaid only60-day Money-back Guaranteeall plans
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