Healthchecks
Listen for pings and sends alerts when pings are late.
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 63% of tracked projects; popularity more than 79%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 10k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v4.4 · 31 Aug 2026 |
| Repo updated | 21 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause |
| Built with | Python, Docker |
Is Healthchecks actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 484 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 159 of them.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 83% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, v4.4, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Of the 32 projects we track in Automation, Healthchecks ranks #6 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Healthchecks actually does
Healthchecks is an automation tool designed to monitor periodic tasks, scripts, and cron jobs. It listens for HTTP pings sent by your processes and triggers notifications if those signals fail to arrive on schedule.
Best fit: It is well-suited for developers and system administrators who need a self-hosted way to track background job execution across multiple servers.
Worth knowing: You will need to configure your existing scripts and cron jobs to send outward HTTP requests to this service, which requires updates to your source code or job definitions.
Deployment notes
Since it is packaged as a Docker container, deployment typically involves setting up persistent volumes for database storage and placing a reverse proxy in front of the application to handle TLS termination.
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