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by cuu508 3904 days ago
Shameless plug: https://healthchecks.io Same idea, open source
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Healthchecks.io looks really interesting, both because it's an open source django project and because I was disappointed with Dead Man's Snitch. DMS forces me to live within their timing for running checks -- If you have something that has to occur @ 3am every morning, you won't know it failed until midnight UTC later that day, or when a customer calls to complain.

Healthchecks handles this a lot more sensibly. I might throw it on a linode and give it a shot. Thanks for releasing it.

Wow, that's awesome. That really is the biggest problem with DMS. I asked them about that feature a couple years ago, they said it was on the roadmap. Might ping them again.