Healthchecks.io
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5recommend
0warn against
Dec 28, 2025first mention
Sep 20, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“healthchecks io that I personally use”
“I'm myself very happy with https://healthchecks.io/ for this purpose.”
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“a self-hosted healthchecks.io instance to remind me if I forget”
“some indie makers have managed to make it work (like healthchecks.io for example)”
“I use a self-hosted healthchecks.io watchdog timer instance”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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“healthchecks io that I personally use”
“I'm myself very happy with https://healthchecks.io/ for this purpose.”
It's a managed uptime monitoring service (with support for basic HTTP checks, cron checks, and playwright-based browser checks running across AWS regions) that wires into highly available status pages. You might want to spend time figuring out how to keep your status page online when your hosting provider goes down, thankfully for the business, others don't. There may be many others like it, but this one is built dif
“a self-hosted healthchecks.io instance to remind me if I forget”
“some indie makers have managed to make it work (like healthchecks.io for example)”
“I use a self-hosted healthchecks.io watchdog timer instance”
“A service like healthchecks.io [3] can help with "monitoring the monitors".”