Let's Install Healthchecks - Cron Job Monitoring Service - On Linux
10#Healthchecks #Cron #Linux
Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials...
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What is Healthchecks?
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Healthchecks is a cron job monitoring service. It listens for HTTP requests and email messages ("pings") from your cron jobs and scheduled tasks ("checks"). When a ping does not arrive on time, Healthchecks sends out alerts.
Healthchecks comes with a web dashboard, API, 25+ integrations for delivering notifications, monthly email reports, WebAuthn 2FA support, team management features: projects, team members, read-only access. - https://github.com/healthchecks/healt...
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Installing HeathChecks
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01. Log into the Linux device
02. Run the following commands in the terminal
update software repositories
sudo apt update
install available software updates
sudo apt upgrade -y
install prerequisites
sudo apt install git gcc python3-dev python3-venv libpq-dev -y
create a working directory
mkdir healthchecks
change directory to the working directory
cd healthchecks
prepare the working directory
python3 -m venv hc-venv
source hc-venv/bin/activate
install wheel
pip3 install wheel
clone healthchecks from github
git clone https://github.com/healthchecks/healt...
install healthchecks
pip install -r healthchecks/requirements.txt
cd into ./healthchecks
cd healthchecks
initialize database
./manage.py migrate
create an admin user
./manage.py createsuperuser
enter an email address
enter and confirm a password
run healthchecks server
./manage.py runserver
03. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8000
04. Login with the admin account created earlier
05. Welcome to HealthChecks
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Running Healthchecks as a Service
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01. Go back to the open terminal and press CTRL+C to kill the running Healthchecks process
02. Continue with the following commands
change directories back to home
cd ~
move the healthchecks folder to opt
sudo mv ./healthchecks /opt/
create healthchecks service file
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/healthchecks.service
03. Paste the following configuration into healthchecks.service
[Unit]
Description=Healthchecks
After=multi-user.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/opt/healthchecks/hc-venv/bin/python /opt/healthchecks/healthchecks/manage.py runserver
Restart=always
WorkingDirectory=/opt/healthchecks/healthchecks
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
04. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes
05. Continue with the following commands
reload systemd services
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
start and enable the healthchecks service
sudo systemctl enable healthchecks --now
06. Back in the web browser refresh the Healthchecks page
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