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[9dev]

I’m not sure I understand what the application itself does; as far as I can see, it basically configures the external services to carry out the actual checks and ensures this configuration is up to date?

Wouldn’t it be better to do this as part of a Terraform script or something? Not to take away from the project, it sure looks neat—just wondering if I really want to deploy yet another, independent IaC tool.

[adamdecaf → 9dev]

It sets up expected check in times for an app/job. The job is responsible for checking in, but the alert will fire regardless of your infra.

Doesn’t require a start command and your infra can completely fail and you’ll still get alerted.

[hiatus → 9dev]

There is a pagerduty provider for terraform, too. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/PagerDuty/pagerduty/...

[pigeonhole123 → 9dev]

It doesn't look like PagerDuty supports sending out alerts on missing heart beats

[bryanlarsen → pigeonhole123]

AFAICT, that's a better description of the project for people like us. It's a way to add a missing heart beat alert to PagerDuty.

[adamdecaf → pigeonhole123]

The idea is an app checks in after scheduled jobs, which extends the snooze

[hiatus → pigeonhole123]

That's exactly how escalation in pagerduty works.