healthchecks

healthchecks is a watchdog for your cron jobs. It's a web server that listens for pings from your cron jobs, plus a web interface.

It is live here: http://healthchecks.io/

The building blocks are:

• Python 2 or Python 3
• Django 1.8
• PostgreSQL or MySQL

Setting Up for Development

These are instructions for setting up HealthChecks Django app in development environment.

• prepare directory for project code and virtualenv:

    $ mkdir -p ~/webapps
    $ cd ~/webapps
  

• prepare virtual environment (with virtualenv you get pip, we'll use it soon to install requirements):

    $ virtualenv --python=python3 hc-venv
    $ source hc-venv/bin/activate
  

• check out project code:

    $ git clone git@github.com:healthchecks/healthchecks.git
  

• install requirements (Django, ...) into virtualenv:

    $ pip install -r healthchecks/requirements.txt
  

• make sure PostgreSQL server is installed and running, create database "hc":

    $ psql --user postgres
    postgres=# create database hc;
  

• create database tables, triggers, superuser:

    $ cd ~/webapps/healthchecks
    $ ./manage.py migrate
    $ ./manage.py ensuretriggers
    $ ./manage.py createsuperuser
  

• run development server:

    $ ./manage.py runserver