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💓 Heartbeat API

Send a Heartbeat Ping​

Report that your job/service is running successfully.

Endpoint​

GET /heartbeat/{token}
POST /heartbeat/{token}

Parameters​

ParameterLocationDescription
tokenURL pathThe unique heartbeat token (from your monitor's settings)

Example​

# GET request
curl https://your-monitron.com/heartbeat/abc123def456

# POST request
curl -X POST https://your-monitron.com/heartbeat/abc123def456

Response​

{
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Heartbeat recorded"
}

What Happens​

  1. The monitor's last_checked_at is updated to now
  2. Status is set to Up
  3. Consecutive failures are reset to 0
  4. If there was an active incident, it's automatically resolved

Report a Heartbeat Failure​

Explicitly report that your job/service has failed.

Endpoint​

POST /heartbeat/{token}/fail

Parameters​

ParameterLocationDescription
tokenURL pathThe unique heartbeat token

Example​

curl -X POST https://your-monitron.com/heartbeat/abc123def456/fail

Response​

{
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Failure recorded"
}

What Happens​

  1. Status is set to Down
  2. Consecutive failures are incremented
  3. An incident is created (if one isn't already open)
  4. Notifications are dispatched to configured contacts

🔗 Finding Your Token​

  1. Go to Monitors → click your Heartbeat monitor → View
  2. The Heartbeat URL is shown prominently in the monitor details
  3. The token is the last part of the URL: /heartbeat/{this-part}