Dead Man's Snitch

Dead simple monitoring for Heroku Scheduler, cron jobs, or any periodic process Starting at ~$0/hour.

Dead Simple Setup

Give your Snitch a name, chose an interval and ping your unique Snitch URL after the job you want monitored.

Quick Integration with Heroku Scheduler

Adding a Snitch to your Heroku Scheduler tasks is as simple as adding your Snitch URL after the job.

Integrations

Integrates with your existing alerting and on call systems: Slack, PagerDuty, and VictorOps.

Need a custom integration? Build it quickly and easily with our Webhooks integration.

Peace of Mind

Ever had a backup not run or an email campaign not go out? We’ll tell you right away when something doesn't happen so you can react and fix it before it is a problem.

Add Custom Data

Pass custom data to your Snitch:

curl -d "m=just checking in" https://nosnch.in/208cd43444

Mobile Monitoring

Grab our iPhone or Android apps and monitor your processes on the go. Get a Push Notification when something goes wrong.

Monitor Process Speed

Find out how long your processes take to run by adding time to your Snitch.

Custom Alert Emails

Send emails to only the people who need to know about a process.

Region Availability

The available application locations for this add-on are shown below, and depend on whether the application is deployed to a Common Runtime region or Private Space. Learn More

  • Common Runtime
  • Private Spaces
Region Available
United States Available
Europe Available
Region Available Installable in Space
Dublin Available
Frankfurt Available
London Available
Montreal Available
Mumbai Available
Oregon Available
Singapore Available
Sydney Available
Tokyo Available
Virginia Available

Plans & Pricing

Need a larger plan? Let our customer success team help! Learn more.
    • Snitches 1
    • API Access
    • Integrations
    • Short Intervals
    • iPhone and Android Apps with Push Notifications
    • Error Alerting
    • Error Logs with Field Agent
    • Snitches 3
    • API Access
    • Integrations
    • Short Intervals
    • iPhone and Android Apps with Push Notifications
    • Error Alerting
    • Error Logs with Field Agent
    • Snitches 100
    • API Access
    • Integrations
    • Short Intervals
    • iPhone and Android Apps with Push Notifications
    • Error Alerting
    • Error Logs with Field Agent
    • Snitches 300
    • API Access
    • Integrations
    • Short Intervals
    • iPhone and Android Apps with Push Notifications
    • Error Alerting
    • Error Logs with Field Agent
    • Snitches 700
    • API Access
    • Integrations
    • Short Intervals
    • iPhone and Android Apps with Push Notifications
    • Error Alerting
    • Error Logs with Field Agent
Install Dead Man's Snitch
heroku addons:create deadmanssnitch

To provision, copy the snippet into your CLI or use the install button above.

Dead Man's Snitch Documentation