Heartbeat Occurrences

The Heartbeats feature is currently only available to Beta Testers. If you think your application is a good candidate, send an email to support@appsignal.com!

Once you've:

You'll be able to begin monitoring your Heartbeats in AppSignal.

In this documentation, we'll explain to you what different Heartbeat statuses mean and how you can inspect Heartbeats in AppSignal.

Viewing Heartbeats

To view all of your app's heartbeats click on the Heartbeats overview via the AppSignal app navigation:

Here you will have an overview of your heartbeats with the following columns:

Column name	Description
Name and type	The name of your heartbeat and job type.
Schedule	The schedule of your job, expressed in crontab syntax
Last failure	The last time a job failed, or Never if a failure has never occurred.
Latest job	The status of the last run job

Heartbeat status

Heartbeat jobs will have one of the following statuses:

Status	Description
New	No heartbeats have yet been received for this Heartbeat.
Success	The job has been completed within its maximum duration.
Late	A Heartbeat completed after its expected finish time (finish time = scheduled start time + max job duration).
Missed	The job's max duration has passed and no finish heartbeat has been received.
Running	A start heartbeat has been received.

Heartbeat Summary

Clicking on the name of a heartbeat will take you to an overview of:

The last five jobs: The timestamps for the last five jobs for the Heartbeat alongside their status.
The last five missed or failed jobs: The timestamps for the last five missed or failed jobs.