The Silent Failure Problem

Your cron jobs fail silently

That nightly backup? It stopped running 3 weeks ago. The report generator? It's been erroring out since Tuesday. You find out when someone asks where the data went.

Heartbeat Monitoring

Know the moment a job stops running

Add one line to your script. We'll alert you if it doesn't ping on schedule.

How heartbeat monitoring works

Three steps. Five minutes. Complete visibility into your scheduled jobs.

Create a heartbeat monitor

Set the expected interval (hourly, daily, weekly) and grace period for your job.

Add one line to your script

Ping your unique URL at the end of your job. Any HTTP client works.

Get alerted on missed pings

If your job doesn't ping within the expected window, we alert you immediately.

#!/bin/bash

# Your existing backup script

pg_dump mydb > /backups/$(date +%F).sql

aws s3 cp /backups/ s3://my-bucket/ --recursive

# Add this one line at the end

curl --retry 3 https://appulsemonitor.com/ping/abc123

That's it. If the script fails before reaching curl, we'll know.

What can you monitor?

Any scheduled task that runs on a predictable schedule

🗄️

Database Backups

pg_dump, mysqldump, mongodump — verify backups actually complete.

📊

Report Generation

Daily reports, analytics exports, scheduled data aggregations.

⚡

Data Pipelines

ETL jobs, data sync, Airflow tasks, dbt runs.

📧

Email Digests

Newsletter sends, notification batches, scheduled email jobs.

🧹

Cleanup Jobs

Log rotation, tmp file cleanup, expired session purging.

🔄

Sync Jobs

CRM syncs, inventory updates, third-party data imports.

Flexible scheduling options

Configure intervals and grace periods that match your job's actual schedule. No false alarms, no missed failures.

⏱️

Expected Interval

5 min, 15 min, 1 hour, 8 hours, 12 hours, or 24 hours

🕐

Grace Period

Extra buffer time before alerting (1 to 1 hour)

🔔

Multi-channel Alerts

Email, Slack, Teams, webhooks — notify the right people

JOB TIMELINE

12:00

13:00

14:00

15:00

Job completed on time

This time it ran · Last: Thu Aug 14 15:00 sa

Works with any scheduler

crontab, systemd timers, Kubernetes CronJobs, Airflow, or custom schedulers

# crontab

# Run daily at midnight

0 0 * * * /backup.sh && \

  curl -fsS https://appulsemonitor.com/ping/abc

# Kubernetes CronJob

command:

  - /bin/sh

  - -c

  - |

  /backup.sh

  curl https://appulsemonitor.com/ping

# python

import requests

def run_job():

  # ... your job code ...

  # Ping on success

  requests.get("https://appulsemonitor.com/ping/abc")

// node.js

async function runJob() {

  // ... your job code ...

  // Ping when done

  await fetch("https://appulsemonitor.com/ping/abc");

}