[rozenmd]

The term of art you're looking for is: "heartbeat check"/"healthcheck", or most commonly: "cron job monitor".

[bravetraveler]

Seems very similar to a 'watchdog', just... reporting instead of doing anything about it.

[adamdecaf]

There’s no crontab for banking days. Deadcheck also requires checkins within a delta of the expected checking time.

Deadcheck also doesn’t rely on your infra to alert.

[herpderperator]

Yeah I thought "dead man's switch" was such a weird name for this.

[LorenPechtel]

It's something that happens if you fail to take action to prevent it at some specified frequency. Looks a lot like a dead man switch to me.

[vivzkestrel]

uptime monitor?

[rozenmd]

Uptime monitors ping your server, this seems to do the opposite.