Background failures are easy to miss
A website can stay online while the backup, billing sync, report generator, or scheduled import has silently stopped running.
Premium feature • Heartbeat / webhook monitor
Heartbeat and webhook monitoring for jobs that must check in on time
Not every critical workflow has a URL to poll. Dashmon Premium includes heartbeat monitoring for the jobs, backups, integrations, and scheduled tasks that need to signal they ran successfully by calling a webhook endpoint.
Dashmon waits for the incoming heartbeat token, tracks the expected interval and grace window, and marks the monitor down when the signal becomes stale. That gives you one place to watch external availability and background task freshness together.
Cron jobsBackupsETL workflowsWebhook freshnessMissed task alerts
Why buyers look for heartbeat or webhook monitoring
What this capability adds in practice
Understand the practical role of this capability, how it fits the wider monitoring loop, and what your team can do next when the signal changes.
Polling does not fit every workflow
Some tasks only need to tell you “I completed” or “I am still alive”, which is exactly what a heartbeat receiver is for.
It belongs in the same incident workflow
Missed heartbeats matter more when they can route into the same escalation, reporting, and status process as other production issues.
How Dashmon handles heartbeat monitoring today
How this works inside Dashmon
These capabilities are available through Dashmon’s dashboard and app flows. The sections below show how the feature fits into day-to-day monitoring, investigation, response, and communication.
Webhook endpoint per heartbeat monitor
Dashmon exposes a public heartbeat receiver so jobs can send a ping when they complete or keep-alive on schedule.
Expected interval plus grace time
You define how often the job should check in and how much tolerance it gets before Dashmon marks it unhealthy.
Route missed heartbeats clearly
Use Alert Routing to test email, SMS, or webhook escalation and reduce overnight noise with quiet hours where appropriate.
Commercial relevance
Good fit for
Usually paired with
Heartbeat monitoring is valuable when you need more than “is the site up?”
- Scheduled backups
- Cron jobs and queue workers
- ETL or sync pipelines
- Any task that can call a webhook
- Synthetic monitoring for user-facing paths
- DNS checks for resolver confidence
- Incidents and status pages for team communication
- Project-based alert routing and escalation
Frequently asked questions
Questions people ask before they buy
What does Dashmon heartbeat monitoring watch?
It watches for an inbound webhook ping to arrive within the expected interval and grace period. If the signal stops or goes stale, the monitor can be marked down.
Is heartbeat monitoring different from uptime monitoring?
Yes. Uptime monitoring polls an endpoint from Dashmon’s side. Heartbeat monitoring waits for your job or integration to prove it ran by calling Dashmon.
What teams benefit most from heartbeat monitoring?
Ops teams, SaaS teams, MSPs, and branch environments all benefit when backups, reports, integrations, and scheduled maintenance jobs are visible in the same dashboard as websites and servers.
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