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Healthchecks.io is a service for monitoring cron jobs and similar periodic processes: \* Healthchecks.io listens for HTTP requests and email messages ("pings") from your cron jobs and scheduled tasks. \* It keeps silent as long as pings arrive on time. \* It alerts you via email, SMS, Slack, etc. as soon as a ping does not arrive on time. Healthchecks.io works as a dead man's switch for processes that need to run continuously or on a regular, known schedule. For example: \* filesystem backups, database backups \* task queues \* database replication status \* report generation scripts \* periodic data import and sync jobs \* periodic antivirus scans \* DDNS updater scripts \* SSL renewal scripts

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