Heartbeat monitors have their own separate allowance in Acumen Logs, so watching your cron jobs never uses up your website uptime or SSL checks:

• Free Plan ($0/mo): 10 heartbeat monitors with email alerts
• Solo Plan ($5/mo): 100 heartbeat monitors with Slack, Microsoft Teams, desktop, email, and webhook alerts
• Essentials Plan ($39.99/mo): 150 heartbeat monitors
• Pro Plan ($149.99/mo): 200 heartbeat monitors

With Acumen Logs Heartbeat Monitoring, you create a unique check-in URL and set the expected interval (such as every hour or once a day). At the end of your cron job, database backup, or queue worker, your script sends a single HTTP request (GET, POST, or HEAD) to that URL.

One interval runs from the last ping. A ping that arrives after the interval is marked late in your history. If no ping arrives within the interval, the monitor is marked failed and a missed alert is sent. There is no agent or SDK to install.

Single-request ping checks cannot verify authenticated endpoints or multi-step API workflows. With Acumen Logs API Monitoring, you can:

• Chain Multiple Requests: Send an initial authentication request, extract a bearer token or resource ID from the JSON response, and pass it into subsequent requests using variable syntax (such as {{token}}).
• Validate Payloads & Contracts: Assert on HTTP status code ranges, latency thresholds, response headers, specific JSON key values, or full JSON schema contracts.