Better Uptime Monitoring for 3 Cron API Healthcheck Layers (Small SaaS)
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Use three layers: a public uptime checker for the API edge, a dead-man's-switch heartbeat monitor for scheduled imports, and internal telemetry for reconstruction after either layer detects a failure. Short answer: UptimeRobot or Pingdom should own public probes and immediate notification, Healthchecks should own "the import did not run" detection, and logs, errors, and metrics should preserve the evidence needed to explain what happened. This separation matters more than a feature-count compar