Scheduled Job Heartbeat and Silence Ledger
Pricing
from $20.00 / 1,000 run starteds
Your cron job sends one curl ping after each run. This Actor keeps the ledger in a named key-value store and reports every job that went silent, with an optional webhook alert. HTTP only, no browser, no proxy, no database.
You can access the Scheduled Job Heartbeat and Silence Ledger programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "jobs": [12 {13 "slug": "nightly-backup",14 "name": "Nightly database backup",15 "expected_max_gap_minutes": 1440,16 "grace_minutes": 3017 },18 {19 "slug": "hourly-etl",20 "name": "Hourly ETL step",21 "expected_max_gap_minutes": 60,22 "grace_minutes": 1023 },24 {25 "slug": "queue-worker",26 "name": "Queue worker heartbeat",27 "expected_max_gap_minutes": 15,28 "grace_minutes": 529 }30 ],31 "mode": "evaluate",32 "ledgerStoreName": "heartbeat-ledger",33 "alertWebhookUrl": "",34 "defaultGraceMinutes": 5,35 "suppressRepeatAlerts": true,36 "timeoutSeconds": 15,37 "receiveMaxSeconds": 60,38 "maxRequestBytes": 1638439};40
41// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish42const run = await client.actor("kingii98/scheduled-job-heartbeat-and-silence-ledger").call(input);43
44// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)45console.log('Results from dataset');46console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);47const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();48items.forEach((item) => {49 console.dir(item);50});51
52// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Scheduled Job Heartbeat and Silence Ledger API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: