Introduction

Beacon watches your cron jobs and background workers and tells you when one stops running. It works with any language: a job pings a URL when it finishes, and Beacon alerts you when a ping is late.

How it works

  1. Create a check with a schedule.
  2. Add the ping URL to the end of your job.
  3. Pick where alerts go.
note

Pings are plain HTTP requests, so they work from shell scripts too.

Next steps

Read Install, then Configure.

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