UptimeRobot is a website monitoring service with a forever free plan that lets you register with just an email and monitor up to 50 websites, servers, or keywords with 5-minute intervals. Setup takes only a few clicks.
For faster checks and advanced features, paid plans offer 1-minute or 30-second intervals, along with SSL certificate, domain expiry, and heartbeat (cron job) monitoring. You can also create up to 100 status pages, customize them to match your brand, protect them with a password, and allow subscribers to receive updates.
Get notified instantly via email, SMS, voice calls, or integrations with Slack, Zapier, PagerDuty, Splunk On-Call, Telegram, Webhooks, Discord, Mattermost, Pushbullet, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Pushover, and more. Mobile push notifications are available through the iOS and Android apps.
Other features include maintenance windows, incident tracking with root cause analysis, tags, comments, and filters. Share account with other team members.
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ActiveBatch by Redwood makes setting up and launching automation easy with no custom scripting required. With a low-code Super REST API adapter, over 100 pre-built job steps and a user-friendly drag-and-drop workflow designer, you can integrate across any system, application and data source, on-prem, in the cloud or in hybrid environments.
Maintain complete control and visibility and meet SLAs with monitoring of all automation from a single pane of glass and get custom alerts via emails or SMS. Managed Smart Queues dynamically scale resources for high-volume workloads, reducing process times while the self-service portal enables business users to run and monitor workflows independently.
ActiveBatch meets security and compliance standards, with ISO 27001 and SOC 2, Type II certifications, encrypted connections and regular third-party tests, always keeping security at the forefront. Along with ongoing product advancements, get the added benefit of 24x7 support and on-site training.
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Healthchecks.io
Healthchecks.io is a simple and effective cron job monitoring tool that alerts users when their scheduled tasks, such as backups or reports, fail to run on time. Users can generate a unique ping URL for each background job, and the platform sends notifications when jobs do not ping within the configured timeframe. It supports 20 free cron job monitors and features an easy-to-use dashboard where users can name, tag, and organize their tasks. With configurable period and grace time settings, users can track tasks across various states, such as "up," "late," or "down," based on the timing of pings. Healthchecks.io also supports cron expressions, logs event history, and offers status badges for public display. Notifications are available through multiple integrations, including email, webhooks, Slack, and Discord, as well as incident management tools like PagerDuty and Opsgenie. The service is ideal for monitoring cron jobs, server processes, database backups, SSL renewals, and more.
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