In today’s always-on digital landscape, uptime is paramount. Critical applications, services, and systems must run continuously, and even minor disruptions can have significant consequences. A key technique that helps ensure uptime is heartbeat monitoring. This process continuously monitors the status and health of systems by relying on periodic “heartbeat” signals sent from a monitored service to a monitoring system.
One important application of this monitoring type is ensuring the successful execution of scheduled tasks such as cron jobs. This blog will explore how heartbeat monitoring works, its importance, and technical best practices, with a focus on how it can be applied to monitor all types of services, including scheduled jobs like cron tasks.
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