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What are you currently using to make sure your periodic tasks run?

As far as making sure DMS runs, we use another third-party to make sure our checkers run. Contact support if you are interested in finding out more.

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We have an elaborate system that someone cooked up a while ago that involves a tree of communicating Processes running on different machines that monitor our real time services. If we could consolidate our 'checker' processes into one that may be the right thing to do. Can the system be set up to use authentication to get behind firewalls or do hue things being monitored have to be accessible over the public Internet?

The interface is a simple HTTPS request. The authentication is done using a unique URL component. This is an example of how to use Dead Man's Snitch:

$ curl https://nosnch.in/c2354d53d2

Dead Man's Snitch does not ping your servers. It is the opposite way around. If your server stops pinging Dead Man's Snitch, you will be notified.

I'm not sure I understand, however, it works by your process reaching out to US to check in. I'd suppose you would maybe have to open up outbound traffic to our domain? I'd love to hear more. Feel free to email hi@deadmanssnitch.com.

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