Check-Ins

Track the performance of scheduled jobs and continuous processes.

Monitor all your app’s background processes with AppSignal Check-ins. Receive alerts when processes fail, run off schedule, or exceed their max duration.

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Monitor any process

Track all your background jobs, cron tasks, and services in one place. See the status of all your Check-ins at a glance.

Real-time issue alerts

Get notified instantly when a process fails to start or runs behind schedule. Resolve issues before they impact performance.

Simple to set up

Add just a few lines of code to create a new Check-in. Get occurrence-level process insights within minutes.

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 your cron jobs with detailed occurrence-level insights. We’ll notify you if a process fails to start, complete, or runs off schedule, so you can fix problems before they affect performance.

Background process monitoring

Heartbeat Check-Ins continuously monitor the health of your background jobs, services, and processes. If they become unresponsive, we’ll alert you immediately, enabling you to proactively resolve issues before they impact reliability.

Simple set-up

Start monitoring in minutes with one-line helpers.

Ensure your background jobs never fail silently again. With AppSignal’s helper methods, you can monitor background processes in minutes. Simply create a check-in, add the helper methods to your code, and gain instant insights into background processes like cron jobs.

Ruby

def send_invoices
  # ... your code here ...
  Appsignal::CheckIn.cron("send_invoices")
end

JavaScript

import { checkIn } from "@appsignal/nodejs";
 
function sendInvoices() {
  // ... your code here ...
  checkIn.cron("send_invoices");
}

Elixir

def send_invoices do
  # ... your code here ...
  Appsignal.CheckIn.cron("send_invoices")
end

Python

from 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.

Dive into deep occurrence-level insights with just one click. Check-ins help you quickly understand the health of your jobs and processes with a summary of recent runtimes, performance, and statuses.