Check-Ins
Track the performance of scheduled jobs and continuous processes
Monitor your app's background processes with AppSignal. Recieve alerts when processes fail, run off schedule, or exceed their max duration.
All-in-one background process monitoring
Monitor all of your app's background processes in one place.
Scheduled cron job monitoring
Monitor and track the execution of scheduled cron jobs with occurrence-level insights. Receive notifications when processes fail to start, complete, or run off schedule.
Continuous process monitoring
Heartbeat Check-Ins track the health of your process and notify you if it stops responding, giving you time to proactively respond to incidents before they impact reliability.
Simple set-up
Start monitoring in minutes with one-line helpers.
With AppSignal's helper methods, you can start monitoring background processes in minutes. Create a check-in, add helper methods to your code, and begin receiving insights into background processes like cron jobs.
def send_invoices
# ... your code here ...
Appsignal::CheckIn.cron("send_invoices")
endimport { checkIn } from "@appsignal/nodejs";
function sendInvoices() {
// ... your code here ...
checkIn.cron("send_invoices");
}def send_invoices do
# ... your code here ...
Appsignal.CheckIn.cron("send_invoices")
endfrom appsignal.check_in import cron
def send_invoices():
# ... your code here ...
cron("send_invoices")Monitoring made simple
View all of your background process insights in one simple overview.
AppSignal's user-friendly interface makes it easy to monitor background processes. Gain detailed insights into the performance of processes and quickly address failing jobs.
Quick contextual insights
A simple and detailed summary of your job's performance.
Quickly understand job health with a summary of your job's recent runtime, performance, and status. Dive into deep occurrence-level insights with just one click.
Deep performance insights
Inspect job performance on an occurrence level.
View critical performance metrics on an occurrence level to help you fix issues and fine-tune job performance with data-driven precision.
Logbook
Summarize issues and collaborate with teammates.
Use the logbook to link to external issues, update team members about the progress and root causes of issues, or leave notes to your future self.
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