Healthchecks Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Healthchecks hosting and get cron job monitoring self-hosted on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Healthchecks 4.4 image with a private PostgreSQL 16 database, creates the administrator account from the email you give, closes public registration and publishes it over HTTPS, so each scheduled task gets its own ping URL and you hear about it once one of them misses its grace time.

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What is Healthchecks?

Healthchecks is a cron job monitoring service. It listens for HTTP requests and email messages, called pings, from your scheduled tasks, called checks, and sends out alerts when a ping does not arrive on time. Run as self-hosted Healthchecks, it is an open-source option for anyone comparing Cronitor or Dead Man's Snitch, with a web dashboard, an API, status badges, monthly reports and more than 25 notification integrations. It is built on Django and licensed under BSD-3-Clause. This page is for the open-source software, not the hosted healthchecks.io service.

On xCloud the template deploys Healthchecks 4.4 as the official image, pinned by digest, with a private PostgreSQL 16 sidecar that publishes no port. All state sits in the healthchecks_db volume. The administrator is created from your email and a generated password, public registration is off, and outbound email is left unconfigured until you add SMTP.

From Sign-Up to a Live Monitor In Just 3 Easy Steps

A cron monitor normally means an app container, a PostgreSQL database, secrets, a domain and a certificate before the first job reports in. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Healthchecks from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, and enter the administrator email; xCloud generates the password.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We start the Healthchecks 4.4 image pinned by digest with a private PostgreSQL 16 sidecar, mount healthchecks_db, generate the database passwords and Django secret, and publish HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Create Your First Check
Sign in with the administrator email and the generated password, create a check, then paste its ping URL into your cron job or worker so each successful run sends a request.

Everything Healthchecks Does, On Your Own Server

Healthchecks runs here with its dashboard, schedules and alerts, backed by a PostgreSQL database that only the app can reach.

Ping URLs For Every Job
Each check gets a unique URL. Your cron job or worker requests it when it finishes, and Healthchecks alerts you when the expected ping stops arriving.
Period, Grace Time And Cron
Set the expected period and a grace time before alerts fire, or define the schedule as a cron expression for jobs that run at fixed times.
A Live Checks Dashboard
The My Checks screen shows the status of every job in a live-updating dashboard, and each check keeps an event log of its pings.
Many Notification Channels
More than 25 integrations deliver alerts, including Slack, Discord, Telegram, Signal, Matrix, PagerDuty and Apprise. You set them up after install.
Status Badges
Public but hard-to-guess badge URLs let you show a check's state in a README, dashboard or status page.
Projects And Team Access
Group checks into projects and give team members access, including read-only access. WebAuthn two-factor sign-in works once RP_ID is set.

Everything You Need To Run Your Cron Monitoring 24/7

Managed hosting for Healthchecks, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Healthchecks 4.4 deployed instantly
Private PostgreSQL included
Admin login generated for you
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Healthchecks

Monitor cron jobs with ping requests
Add one request to the end of a backup or report script, and Healthchecks tells you when a night passes without it. You find out about a silent failure the next morning, not weeks later.
Catch a stalled queue worker
Give a background worker its own check with a period matching its heartbeat, so a worker that hangs or crashes without logging an error still raises an alert.
Alert the on-call channel in chat
Route failed checks to Slack, Telegram or PagerDuty so the person on call is told in the tool they already watch, rather than discovering a missed job from a customer.
Show job health on a team dashboard
Embed a status badge in a README or internal page so everyone sees whether the nightly import last ran, without needing a login to the monitoring app.

Healthchecks vs Alternatives

Cronitor: Cronitor is a hosted cron monitoring service. Healthchecks does the dead-man's-switch job of alerting when a scheduled task stops pinging, but runs on your own server with the checks stored in your PostgreSQL.
Dead Man's Snitch: Dead Man's Snitch (also written dead mans snitch) calls itself a cron job monitoring service: each snitch has a unique URL your job requests, and an alert follows a missed check-in. Healthchecks uses a similar ping model, with period, grace time and cron schedules, on a server you own.
Uptime Kuma: Uptime Kuma has its own xCloud page. Healthchecks takes the passive side of monitoring: your job calls its ping URL, and the alert fires when that call is missing after the period and grace time.
Gatus: Gatus has its own xCloud page. Healthchecks needs no inbound access to the job itself: cron jobs and background tasks send outbound pings, and Healthchecks alerts when an expected one does not arrive.

Ready To Monitor Cron Jobs With Ping?

Healthchecks on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Keep your check history on your own server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How do I monitor a cron job with Healthchecks?

Create a check in the dashboard, copy its unique ping URL, and make your job request that URL when it finishes, for example with curl at the end of the crontab line. Then set the period and grace time, or a cron expression, to match the schedule.

Which notification channels does Healthchecks support?

Upstream lists more than 25 integrations, including Slack, Discord, Pushover, Signal, Telegram, Apprise, Matrix, PagerDuty and shell commands. They are not preconfigured in this template, so you add the ones you want after installation, with their own credentials.

Is self-hosted Healthchecks the same as healthchecks.io?

No. Healthchecks.io is the hosted service run by the project. This template deploys the open-source Healthchecks software, version 4.4, on your own Cloud VPS, with your own database, accounts and limits. xCloud has no partnership with the hosted service.

Does self-hosted Healthchecks need an email server?

Pings over HTTP do not. Outbound email, such as alert and sign-in messages, needs SMTP, which this template leaves unconfigured because credentials are deployment-specific. The inbound SMTP ping listener is omitted and no SMTP port is published.

Can I self-host Healthchecks with Docker?

Yes, and this template is Healthchecks Docker hosting done for you: the official image pinned by digest, a private PostgreSQL 16 sidecar, one localhost-bound port behind xCloud's HTTPS, and the healthchecks_db volume. You write no compose file.

What does Healthchecks cloud hosting on xCloud include?

A dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch and monitor, with Healthchecks and PostgreSQL running, HTTPS on your domain and an administrator account created at install. The checks and ping history belong to you, and the server can host other apps.

How much RAM does Healthchecks need?

The template's catalog minimum is 1024 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 5 GB of disk, and the 6 GB plan clears that for the app and PostgreSQL. Actual disk use depends on check volume, retained ping bodies and how much PostgreSQL grows.

How do I update Healthchecks?

Nothing updates itself: the template is pinned to Healthchecks 4.4 and catalog re-syncs affect new installs only. Back up and test-restore PostgreSQL, read the release notes, keep the healthchecks_db mapping, and verify migrations and pings. Never use docker compose down -v.

What should I back up for Healthchecks?

The healthchecks_db volume, where all application state lives in PostgreSQL. Take a consistent database backup before upgrades, keep copies off the server and test a restore on a disposable deployment. If you add external storage later, include that in your plan too.

Backup and restore Docker apps

Is Healthchecks free and open source?

Yes. Healthchecks is open source under the BSD 3-clause license, with its code on GitHub. The xCloud charge is for the Cloud VPS underneath rather than the software, and the checks and ping history on your instance are yours.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.