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            <h1>Let's Install Healthchecks - Cron Job Monitoring Service - On Linux</h1>
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          <h2>What is Healthchecks?</h2>

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<p><em>Healthchecks is a cron job monitoring service. It listens for HTTP requests and email messages (&quot;pings&quot;) from your cron jobs and scheduled tasks (&quot;checks&quot;). When a ping does not arrive on time, Healthchecks sends out alerts.</em></p>

<p><em>Healthchecks comes with a web dashboard, API, 25+ integrations for delivering notifications, monthly email reports, WebAuthn 2FA support, team management features: projects, team members, read-only access.</em><em> -<a href="https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks" target="_blank">https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks</a></em></p>
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<h2>Installing HeathChecks</h2>

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	<li>Log into the Linux device</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in the terminal
	<div class="codeBlock"># update software repositories<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	# install available software updates<br />
	sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
	# install prerequisites<br />
	sudo apt install git gcc python3-dev python3-venv libpq-dev -y<br />
	# create a working directory<br />
	mkdir healthchecks<br />
	# change directory to the working directory<br />
	cd healthchecks<br />
	# prepare the working directory<br />
	python3 -m venv hc-venv<br />
	source hc-venv/bin/activate<br />
	# install wheel<br />
	pip3 install wheel<br />
	# clone healthchecks from github<br />
	git clone https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks.git<br />
	# install healthchecks<br />
	pip install -r healthchecks/requirements.txt<br />
	# cd into ./healthchecks<br />
	cd healthchecks<br />
	# initialize database<br />
	./manage.py migrate<br />
	# create an admin user<br />
	./manage.py createsuperuser<br />
	# enter an email address<br />
	# enter and confirm a password<br />
	# run healthchecks server<br />
	./manage.py runserver</div>
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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8000</li>
	<li>Login with the admin account created earlier</li>
	<li>Welcome to HealthChecks</li>
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<h2>Running Healthchecks as a Service</h2>

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	<li>Go back to the open terminal and press CTRL+C to kill the running Healthchecks process</li>
	<li>Continue with the following commands
	<div class="codeBlock"># change directories back to home<br />
	cd ~<br />
	# move the healthchecks folder to opt<br />
	sudo mv ./healthchecks /opt/<br />
	# create healthchecks service file<br />
	sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/healthchecks.service</div>
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	<li>Paste the following configuration into healthchecks.service
	<p>[Unit]<br />
	Description=Healthchecks<br />
	After=multi-user.target</p>

	<p>[Service]<br />
	ExecStart=/opt/healthchecks/hc-venv/bin/python /opt/healthchecks/healthchecks/manage.py runserver<br />
	Restart=always<br />
	WorkingDirectory=/opt/healthchecks/healthchecks</p>

	<p>[Install]<br />
	WantedBy=multi-user.target</p>
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	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes</li>
	<li>Continue with the following commands
	<div class="codeBlock"># reload systemd services<br />
	sudo systemctl daemon-reload<br />
	# start and enable the healthchecks service<br />
	sudo systemctl enable healthchecks --now</div>
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	<li>Back in the web browser refresh the Healthchecks page</li>
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