Cron & Heartbeat Monitoring

Heartbeat monitors work differently from uptime monitors. Instead of Chirp pinging your server, your cron job pings Chirp. If the ping doesn't arrive within the expected window, something is wrong.

Each heartbeat monitor gets a unique ping URL. Add a curl call at the end of your cron script and you're set. Chirp tracks every check-in and flags missed ones.

This is useful for database backups, report generation, queue workers, or anything that runs on a schedule and should never silently fail.