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Know when your cron jobs, SSL certs, and DNS break

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Know when your cron jobs, SSL certs, and DNS break

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Wakeful watches cron jobs, SSL certs, DNS records, and HTTP endpoints, and alerts you the moment something breaks. Most tools either only do HTTP pings, or bundle in status pages and incident management at a price that doesn't fit a solo dev's side project. Wakeful keeps it simple: cron heartbeat pings, SSL expiry alerts, DNS change detection, and HTTP checks. Alerts via email, Discord, Telegram, or webhook. Free tier: 3 monitors, 5-min checks, no card required.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 A few months ago a nightly backup job of mine silently failed for about a week before I noticed. A couple weeks later, an SSL cert expired over a weekend and I only found out because a friend messaged me. Both times the actual fix took five minutes — the problem was I had no idea anything was wrong. I looked at existing monitoring tools and most either only do HTTP pings, or bundle in a ton of stuff (status pages, synthetic tests, incident management) at a price that didn't make sense for my side projects. So I built Wakeful: it watches cron jobs, SSL certs, DNS records, and HTTP endpoints, and tells you the moment something breaks — nothing more, nothing less. Free tier is 3 monitors, no card required. Would love feedback, especially on what monitor types or alert channels you'd want next.

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What do you use to catch silent failures — cron jobs, SSL, DNS?

Hey all launching Wakeful on PH next Tuesday (Aug 18), but wanted to start a conversation here first rather than just drop a link.

Curious how people currently catch these kinds of silent failures: a cron job stops running and nobody notices for days, an SSL cert expires over a weekend, a DNS record changes and breaks something downstream. I've been burned by all three on my own side projects the fix each time took 5 minutes, but I had zero visibility that anything was wrong until it was already a problem.

Most monitoring tools I found either only do HTTP uptime pings, or bundle in a lot of stuff (status pages, synthetic browser tests, incident management) at a price that didn't make sense for solo/small projects. So I built Wakeful to just do four things well: cron heartbeat monitoring, SSL expiry alerts, DNS change detection, and HTTP checks alerts to email, Discord, Telegram, or webhook.

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Hey all launching Wakeful on PH next Tuesday (Aug 18), but wanted to start a conversation here first rather than just drop a link.