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Healthchecks is a cron job monitoring service. It listens for HTTP requests and email messages ("pings") from your cron jobs and scheduled tasks ("checks"). When a ping does not arrive on time, Healthchecks sends out alerts.

Configuration Wizard

Configuration parameters to be provided by the user are explained in the subsections below.

Healthchecks configuration wizard

Base tab

  • Email address for the initial admin user account - Email to be used to initially access healthchecks user interface
  • Password for the initial admin user account - Password to be used to initially access healthchecks user interface
  • Open registration - An option for Register Now button to be available on user interface of healthchecks
    • Yes - Button will be avaliable, and will allow for new users to be registered
    • No - Button will not be availible
  • Access options - An option for how the user interface of healthchecks is accessible
    • Public - user interface will be publicly avaliable via internet
    • VPN - user interface will be avaliable via internet only with provided VPN profile
  • Allocated storage space [Optional] - Amount of storage to be allocated to persist data generated by this Healthchecks (default value is displayed in the placeholder, in this case 1 Gigabyte), e.g. 1, 2 or 3.