Open Source Dead Man's Snitch Alternatives
A curated collection of the 1 best open source alternatives to Dead Man's Snitch.
The best open source alternative to Dead Man's Snitch is Healthchecks. If that doesn't suit you, we've compiled a ranked list of other open source Dead Man's Snitch alternatives to help you find a suitable replacement.
Dead Man's Snitch alternatives are mainly Monitoring & Observability but may also be Orchestration & Scheduling. Browse these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Dead Man's Snitch.
Cron job monitoring service that alerts you when a scheduled task fails to check in on time.
Healthchecks watches the jobs that fail quietly. Each cron job or scheduled task pings the service over HTTP or by email when it runs, and when a ping does not arrive on time, the alerts go out. A backup that stopped working three weeks ago stops being a surprise.
A check carries a period, the expected time between pings, and a grace time saying how long to wait before treating a late job as a failed one. Schedules can also be written as cron expressions, parsed and evaluated with the cronsim library.
Around that core sits the machinery a team needs to use it daily.
- Live dashboard: a checks screen showing the status of every job and updating as pings arrive.
- Notifications: more than 25 integrations for delivering alerts, plus monthly email reports.
- Team management: projects, team members and read-only access for people who should not change anything.
- Status badges: public but hard to guess addresses you can drop into a README or a status page.
- Account security: WebAuthn two-factor support on the accounts that hold all of this.
It is a Django application on Python 3.12 or newer, storing data in PostgreSQL, MySQL or MariaDB, with SQLite as the default for a development checkout. A Dockerfile and pre-built images are published, the license is BSD 3-clause, and a hosted service exists for anyone who would rather not run a server.
