function similar to Healthchecks.io?

[skent]

Never seen an option for something like reporting a cronjob/application status to Nagios server as is done by https://healthchecks.io/. Seems like Nagios has the framework via NCPA/NRDP. Just need a way to tokenize (not agent token) a job task. New development feature?

[cdietsch]

Hello @skent,

This functionality seems very similar to the passive checks in combination with writing custom plugins for specific tasks. Here is quick analysis from google:

healthchecks.io works in a very similar manner to Nagios passive checks, specifically in the context of monitoring "dead man's snitches" or periodic, asynchronous tasks like cron jobs.
Both systems operate on a reverse-monitoring principle where the monitored service initiates the communication to indicate success, rather than a central server querying the service (active check).

Please see the following documentation:
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/help/3.x/passive.html
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/ncp ... Checks.pdf

[ekapsner]

To add onto what @cdietsch said, freshness checks are helpful means of triggering alerts if expected passive checks are missing. Here is the documentation. This ensures that you still get alerted when a cronjob fails to run.

- Emmett