Monitor Any Scheduled Job With Heartbeat Checks

Get automatic notifications when your backups or scheduled tasks don’t run as expected. Configure your alerts according to your needs and never miss an issue.

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Create your heartbeat check
Choose the scheduled action you want to monitor and define how often you expect it to send a heartbeat to Checkly. Plan for variability in execution times and adjust as you learn. Every created heartbeat check defines a unique Checkly URL for you to ping.
```
import { HeartbeatCheck } from 'checkly/constructs'

new HeartbeatCheck('heartbeat-check-1', {
  name: 'Weekly backup job',
  period: 7,
  periodUnit: 'days',
  grace: 2,
  graceUnit: 'hours',
})
```
Add a ping event to your job
Use the quick-start guide provided in Checkly, or one of our documented examples to add a reliable check-in from your job. Ping your heartbeat endpoint to signal that your scheduled action succeeded.
```
# Perform your backup and once all commands succeeded 
# Ping your unique heartbeat URL to signal that everything's operational
curl -m 5 --retry 3 https://ping.checklyhq.com/f0e0b1d3-665d-49d0-8bf0-3e6504c3d372
```

Set up your alerting channels

Add any of Checkly’s alerting channels, ensuring your team gets the right information at the right time if a job fails to complete. With Checkly your team are the first to know when something is wrong.

import { HeartbeatCheck, OpsgenieAlertChannel } from 'checkly/constructs'

// Create an alert channel ...
const opsGenieChannel = new OpsgenieAlertChannel('opsgenie-channel-1', {
  name: 'My Ops Team',
  region: 'EU',
  priority: 'P1',
  apiKey: 'xxxx123abc'
})

// and assign it to your Heartbeat check
new HeartbeatCheck('heartbeat-check-1', {
  name: 'Weekly backup job',
  period: 7,
  periodUnit: 'days',
  grace: 2,
  graceUnit: 'hours',
  alertChannels: [opsGenieChannel]
})