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PostDeploy as a Healthchecks.io alternative

PostDeploy watches the scheduled job and the URL it serves in one project: 200 cron jobs plus 100 uptime monitors in the package, with error tracking and analytics on the same login. Healthchecks.io probes no URLs on any tier, so your site needs a second tool and a second bill. Drop the second tool. Run both on PostDeploy.

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Healthchecks.io against PostDeploy

Their entry plan, line by line, against the package that also runs your error tracking and analytics.

Cron and heartbeat jobs
Healthchecks.io
20 checks
PostDeploy
200, own allowance
HTTP uptime checks
Healthchecks.io
Not offered
PostDeploy
Own allowance, 100 in the package
Error tracking and analytics
Healthchecks.io
Not offered
PostDeploy
Included
Next tier up
Healthchecks.io
$20 / month for 100 checks
PostDeploy
$29 a month, flat

Pricing, tier by tier

Free is 20 checks, and the ping log keeps 100 entries per check. The next tier is $20 a month for 100 checks.

Every step on that ladder buys more heartbeats. None of it buys a check on the URL those jobs feed. The site needs a second subscription, a second login and a second alert policy, so the $20 tier is only part of the bill.

PostDeploy is $29 a month, flat, and counts both: 200 cron and heartbeat jobs plus 100 uptime and API monitors across 10 projects, with error tracking and cookieless analytics in the same package. Twenty jobs and a dozen URLs is one bill.

The job and the URL it serves, in one place

A job rarely fails alone. The importer that stopped is why the dashboard is empty. The endpoint that returns 502 is why the webhook never fired. Split across two vendors, you match two timelines by hand in the middle of the incident.

PostDeploy keeps both in one project: 100 polled HTTP, keyword, TCP and DNS checks and 200 heartbeat jobs under one alert policy. A job that pings fail or exits non-zero opens an incident at once, next to the uptime history of the URL it serves.

Move off Healthchecks.io

Each step happens once. Your agent recreates the checks through MCP, and the 14-day trial covers the move.

  1. 1 Export your checks through the Management API (GET /api/v3/checks/) to get names, tags and schedules in one pass.
  2. 2 Swap every ping URL. hc-ping.com/<uuid> sits in crontabs, systemd units, backup scripts, Dockerfile healthchecks, CI workflows and Kubernetes CronJobs. Keep the command and replace the URL.
  3. 3 Report state the PostDeploy way: ?state=start|finish|fail, or the exit code in the path.
  4. 4 Let your agent add uptime checks for the URLs those jobs feed, through MCP.
  5. 5 Connect Slack, Discord, Telegram, a webhook or email in PostDeploy.

Questions

Does Healthchecks.io do uptime monitoring?

No. Its documentation lists probing a website with HTTP requests under what the tool is not for. It is heartbeats only, on every tier, hosted or self-hosted. On PostDeploy uptime checks have their own allowance, 100 in the package.

What does a PostDeploy heartbeat report?

Start, finish and fail, or the job's exit code in the URL. A fail ping or a non-zero exit code opens an incident at once. Uptime checks, error tracking and analytics come in the same package.

Can I keep my existing crontab entries?

Yes. The command stays the same; only the ping URL changes. Each hc-ping.com URL becomes a PostDeploy heartbeat URL, pinged the same way with curl or wget.

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