Heartbeats are currently only available to beta testers. If you are interested in trying it out, send an email to support@appsignal.com!

Add heartbeats support. You can use the heartbeat function to send heartbeats directly from your code, to track the execution of certain processes:

from appsignal import heartbeat
 
def send_invoices():
  # ... your code here ...
  heartbeat("send_invoices")

It is also possible to pass a defined function as an argument to the heartbeat function:

def send_invoices():
  # ... your code here ...
 
heartbeat("send_invoices", send_invoices)

If an exception is raised within the function, the finish event will not be reported to AppSignal, triggering a notification about the missing heartbeat. The exception will be raised outside of the heartbeat function.

See the Python package 1.3.0 changelog for more information.