Healthchecks.io (self-hosted)
Open-source · self-hostable · replaces 1 SaaS tool on os-alt
healthchecks/healthchecks · alive · ★ 10.0k · last commit 3d ago · 55 open issues
License: BSD-3-Clause
Good fit for Cron jobs, scheduled tasks, batch pipelines — monitoring that something fired, not that a URL responded.
Weak at Not an uptime checker — won't probe your homepage; complementary to Uptime Kuma rather than a replacement.
In a terminal? npx -y github:SolvoHQ/os-alt-cli uptime-robot prints
the UptimeRobot comparison table including Healthchecks.io (self-hosted).
how the CLI works →
Replaces these SaaS
- UptimeRobot · External uptime / availability monitoring
Pull `healthchecks/healthchecks:latest` and `postgres:16` via the docs.healthchecks.io install guide. Healthchecks is dead-man's-switch / cron-monitoring (the inverse of UptimeRobot — your job pings Healthchecks; if it stops, alerts fire). For URL probing, use Healthchecks together with a separate uptime-checker — but if your alert needs are 'did this cron job run', this is the right tool, not UptimeRobot.
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