Template · Monitoring

Healthchecks

Cron job monitoring: get alerted when your jobs don't run.

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What gets deployed

2 services in the environment you pick, on the private network of the project.

healthchecks/healthchecks:latest + PostgreSQL 17. Migrations run on boot; create the superuser with manage.py createsuperuser.

Image: postgres:17

Image: healthchecks/healthchecks:latest

Generated secrets never leave the platform; references are resolved on the private network. Anything marked required is asked for at deploy time.

Name	Value
POSTGRES_USER	postgresSuperuser name
POSTGRES_PASSWORD	generated (password)Generated at deploy
POSTGRES_DB	hcDatabase created on first start
PGDATA	/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata
DATABASE_URL	postgresql://${{self.POSTGRES_USER}}:${{self.POSTGRES_PASSWORD}}@${{self.SKIFFLY_PRIVATE_DOMAIN}}:5432/${{self.POSTGRES_DB}}Connection string on the private network

Name	Value
SECRET_KEY	generated (secret)
SITE_ROOT	https://${{self.SKIFFLY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN}}
SITE_NAME	Healthchecks
ALLOWED_HOSTS	*
DB	postgres
DB_HOST	${{Postgres.SKIFFLY_PRIVATE_DOMAIN}}
DB_PORT	5432
DB_NAME	${{Postgres.POSTGRES_DB}}
DB_USER	${{Postgres.POSTGRES_USER}}
DB_PASSWORD	${{Postgres.POSTGRES_PASSWORD}}
REGISTRATION_OPEN	True
DEBUG	False

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HTML

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Volumes, secrets and domain pre-wired. Runs on EU nodes, paid per minute from a prepaid balance.