Healthchecks
Listen for pings and sends alerts when pings are late.
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Still maintained? Yes: 117 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v5.0.3 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Cronitor.
At a glance
Healthchecks quick facts
- Health score
- 96/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 10,476
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v5.0.3, Oct 2026
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
Top alternatives to Healthchecks
Full rankings: Cronitor alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Healthchecks is a cron job monitoring service. It listens for HTTP requests and email messages ("pings") from your cron jobs and scheduled tasks ("checks"). When a ping does not arrive on time, Healthchecks sends out alerts."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Healthchecks scores 96/100, #6 of 32 in Automation: 117 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v5.0.3, 3 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 10,476 stars add 16.1 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 3.9 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
117 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v5.0.3 released 3 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 16.1 / 20
10k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 117
- Last 90 days
- 439
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #6 of 32 tools in Automation by health , between Gotenberg (#5) and Dagu (#7) .
Details
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause |
| Platforms | Python, Docker |
| Latest release | v5.0.3 · 3 days ago |
| Stars | 10,476 |
| Open issues | 54 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | healthchecks/healthchecks ↗ |
Healthchecks vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Healthchecks (Automation), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Airflow | 99 | 47k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Activepieces | 98 | 25k | MIT | today |
| changedetection.io | 98 | 35k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Kestra | 98 | 30k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Healthchecks (this tool) | 96 | 10k | BSD-3-Clause | 2 days ago |
| Cronicle | 85 | 5.9k | MIT | 2 days ago |
Healthchecks: common questions
What does Healthchecks replace?
Repoly lists Healthchecks as an open-source alternative to Cronitor. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Healthchecks stands against the others.
Is Healthchecks still maintained?
Healthchecks had 117 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago; the latest tagged release, v5.0.3, is from 3 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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