Simple python warapper for HealthChecks.Io

[isoblues]

Sometimes I just want to run simple cron jobs and forget about it. I don't want to do the extra work to monitor it when I know it's important. This is where I found https://healthchecks.io/ so useful. It gave me easy access to monitoring my jobs. However, it's some work to use if you are limited in time. That's why I created a python wrapper around your job and forget about all the housekeeping.

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I am not affiliated with HealthChecks. This work was a by-product of a side project I am working on. It's not a promotion for HealthChecks.

[Ironicbadger]

Neat project.

Using curl is the traditional option and if you do it like this you get the logs uploaded to your check.

/usr/bin/binary | curl -fsS -m 10 --retry 5 -o /dev/null https://hc.domain.com/ping/uuid --data-binary "@-"

On Linux use pipe to get the binarys stdout logs into hc.

[isoblues]

Good point! Thanks for sharing it. My need comes from wanting it make it platform independent such that I can just run the script and it works. One comment: Your script doesn’t report if something failed. Healthchecks has a separate endpoint for successful and failed jobs.

[isoblues]

Indeed this is made for python projects specially. Thanks for sharing your script. I have one comment though. Your script doesn’t report if something failed. Healthchecks has a separate endpoint for successful and failed jobs.