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Revainrating 4.5 out of 5  
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4.7
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Description of Healthchecks

Healthchecks.io is a service for monitoring cron jobs and similar periodic processes: * Healthchecks.io listens for HTTP requests and email messages ("pings") from your cron jobs and scheduled tasks. * It keeps silent as long as pings arrive on time. * It alerts you via email, SMS, Slack, etc. as soon as a ping does not arrive on time. Healthchecks.io works as a dead man's switch for processes that need to run continuously or on a regular, known schedule. For example: * filesystem backups, database backups * task queues * database replication status * report generation scripts * periodic data import and sync jobs * periodic antivirus scans * DDNS updater scripts * SSL renewal scripts

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Revainrating 4 out of 5

Easy and effective way for clients / visitors

I like that it's easy to set up, so you don't have to worry about configuring your own web server or software if using something else (eCommerce site). That was one of my biggest challenges getting setup initially with other products; not sure what they were doing in terms security but we had some issues when setting this product up at first - probably due just having no experience/knowledge ourselves! In general though there are plenty tutorials available online which walk through how things…

Pros
  • Good customer service team
  • Ease configuration compared others suchas Magento / Shopify etc.
  • Can build simple customisations into templates without much technical expertise required(no coding)
Cons
  • Requires high level knowledge &/or skillset for basic configurations

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Excellent for monitoring and troubleshooting issues

I like that it allows me to monitor my server from anywhere in time, not just at home or work as with most other tools out there! It's easy enough when you're familiar but can be difficult if they've changed their interface since last using them - so make sure your team knows how this tool works before setting up anything else (i know i said "monitoring" which might seem redundant here). We use health checks mainly because of our customers' needs regarding uptime/availability; however we also…

Pros
  • Easy setup &/easy monitoring.
  • Can do more than basic checkpoints suchas CPU usage + memory consumption alongwith disk space used for storage media(like harddrives) among others..for example one could even put together custom scripts written within Perl scripting language running over SSH access via Linux OS environment.
  • No need
Cons
  • Some difficulties

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great service for any small biz looking into automation

The idea of having an automated health check system really appealed to me when I first saw it, but since then they've started giving some great deals that make you feel like there's too much good stuff going around in their store! It would be awesome if we could get price alerts or notifications about new products so that our team doesn't have to go through each product individually just to see what offers are out there now. This would also save us time by being able to look at different…

Pros
  • Also the cost isn’t very high compared how many people benefit everyday especially those without insurance coverage
Cons
  • Mostly okay, but...

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great service but some areas for improvements

I like that it's easy to set up, can be easily monitored from anywhere using our mobile apps. It has great support team and friendly community. We use it as part of our CI/CD pipeline in order to check if code changes have broken any scripts or services. Sometimes we get stuck with certain issues and do not know how to fix them even after contacting their support - sometimes they don't respond at all. The biggest problem here is lack of documentation so you need to figure out what does each…

Pros
  • Great integration possibilities
  • Pretty decent reporting capabilities
  • Good customisation options for notifications via SMS & email
Cons
  • Will fit