Documentation (cron and heartbeat monitoring) — Better Stack Uptime

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• Heartbeat definition Report an error

  “A heartbeat monitor helps you track periodic tasks by expecting regular requests to a unique URL.”

• Heartbeat incident behavior Report an error

  “If the expected heartbeat is not received within the specified frequency and grace period, it creates an incident and notifies the configured on-call team.”

• Heartbeat setup fields Report an error

  “Set the Expect a heartbeat every field to match the frequency of your task. Configure the grace period, which is the extra time allowed before an incident is raised if the heartbeat is missed.”

• Heartbeat pending state Report an error

  “The heartbeat remains in a "Pending" state until the first request is received. The monitoring period begins from the first heartbeat received, and incidents are only raised after the expected frequency and grace period have elapsed.”

• Heartbeat failure reporting Report an error

  “You can explicitly report a failure by appending /fail to the heartbeat URL”

• Heartbeat failure payload Report an error

  “Additionally, you can include an exit code or output when reporting a failure.”

• Heartbeat URL Report an error

  “curl "https://incidents.betterstack.com/api/v1/heartbeat/<HEARTBEAT_TOKEN>"”

• API docs sections Report an error

  “Incidents API Getting an API token Pagination Monitors Heartbeats On-call & incidents Status pages”

• Monitor types Report an error

  “Uptime monitor Keyword monitor Ping monitor Heartbeats Playwright monitor API monitor DNS monitor Domain expiration monitor SSL certificate monitor TCP/UDP port monitor”

• Private network monitoring Report an error

  “Monitoring private networks”

• Entity Report an error

  “© 2026 Better Stack, Inc.”

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