How to use Heartbeat Monitoring

Keep a constant pulse on the health of your infrastructure with Cronitor

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Emre,
Heartbeat Monitoring [https://cronitor.io/heartbeat-monitoring] is our take on the classic technique of having a software
component make a periodic "heartbeat" to confirm that it's still healthy and running as expected. Less intrusive than a synthetic
monitoring check and less cumbersome than an agent, you can add a heartbeat to almost anything, including:
Containers and Hosts
Find out fast if an important host or container stops running.
Queue Workers and Daemons
Monitor your background workers and aggregate metrics on each iteration.
Email Campaigns
You can send heartbeats by email, too. Add Cronitor to your mailing list and be alerted quickly if your mail stops flowing.
Web Scrapers and Crawlers
Keep an eye on your bots by adding a periodic heartbeat to the work plan of your scrapers and crawlers.
Webhooks
Subscribe Cronitor to any webhook for simple passive monitoring of third party services.
Devices and IoT
Send heartbeats from internet-connected devices of any kind and monitor your entire fleet.
User Activity
Send heartbeats on key system and application events and track them live on your dashboard.


Getting Started with Heartbeats

To start monitoring with zero setup, copy your Telemetry URL [https://cronitor.io/app/welcome/heartbeats] and just start sending
events. Monitors are provisioned automatically and assertions like expected schedule can be added later from the dashboard or API.
Heartbeat events can be sent from anything that can make an HTTP request (or send an email), and we have simple open-source SDKs
for popular languages that make it easy to add heartbeats to your code.

Heartbeat Monitoring Quick Start [https://cronitor.io/app/welcome/heartbeats]



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