Happy New Year from Dead Man’s Snitch. May all your `0 0 1 1 *` cron jobs run the way they’re supposed to.

Today on the blog: Find out how we use Prometheus metamonitoring to watch the watchers grafana.com/blog/2021/04/0…

Published a small Prometheus exporter for Dead Man's Snitch github.com/webdevops/dead…

We’re experiencing a major outage which looks like it’s caused by issues with our hosting provider. We’re trying our best to work around it Updates here: status.deadmanssnitch.com/incidents/ctkh…

All systems are green 🎉

We’re experiencing an outage for our Admin interface and API related to issues at our hosting provider. Check-in handling and alerting are unaffected status.deadmanssnitch.com/incidents/cgnh…

The Admin interface and API are back online. Our check-in handling and alerting were not affected by the outage. We are happy to report that no snitches received stitches today

Just released 🚀: an alert source integration with Dead Man's Snitch. You can now route detailed alerts from Dead Man's Snitch to the right users in Squadcast Inc. & take action on them. 👉 bit.ly/39X9LNj #Integration #SRE #Incidentmanagement

Hola, we have a new addition this week! Now in the list of 100+ integrations is an integration with Dead Man’s Snitch. Get alerts from this easy to set up monitoring tool and receive timely incident alerts. docs.zenduty.com/docs/deadmanss… #zenduty Dead Man's Snitch

Learn more about our newest feature - deadmanssnitch.com/blog/calling-f…

New features for Dead Man's Snitch! #cronjob #cronjobmonitoring #heartbeatmonitoring #api

We just pushed new updates to our Android app! Be sure to update (OR download it if you haven't yet). play.google.com/store/apps/det…

You can now separate your Snitches by project or team with Cases! #cronjob #silentmonitoring #heartbeatmonitoring deadmanssnitch.com/blog/calling-f…

Learn more about this latest feature - #cronjob #cronjobmonitoring #devops #datacenter deadmanssnitch.com/blog/calling-f…

New features for Dead Man's Snitch! #cronjob #cronjobmonitoring #heartbeatmonitoring #api

We're receiving reports that email check-ins coming from SendGrid are being blocked. An easy fix is to remove any nosnch․in addresses from the SendGrid suppression list here: bit.ly/2HaOEn0

If you run cron jobs or other scheduled tasks it is imperative to monitor the success of the job. Tools like Opsgenie heartbeats and Dead Man's Snitch make it easy to add monitoring to any job.

Check out how Mozilla.org is using Dead Man's Snitch. mozilla.github.io/meao/2018/03/2…

Adrian Cockcroft - now @[email protected] I’m using a always firing alert to Dead Man's Snitch which again notifies me if it doesn’t get an alert in a given time. (Thanks to Matthias Rampke for that idea.)