---
title: "Deploy Healthchecks cron monitoring"
description: "Durable cron and background-job monitoring with PostgreSQL."
category: "Observability"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/healthchecks-cron-monitoring
---

# Deploy Healthchecks cron monitoring

Durable cron and background-job monitoring with PostgreSQL.

**[Deploy Healthchecks cron monitoring on Railway](https://railway.com/template/healthchecks-cron-monitoring)**

- **Creator:** Anton Orel's Projects
- **Category:** Observability
- **Total deploys:** 1

## Template content

### Healthchecks

- **Image:** healthchecks/healthchecks:v4.3@sha256:cd7bcd94350818b3944f82eb5995f48bdeab8c8627977578a569ffa73f56f56f
- **Start command:** `/bin/bash -ec './manage.py migrate; ./manage.py shell -c '"'"'from django.contrib.auth.models import User; from hc.accounts.views import _make_user; import os; e=os.environ["SUPERUSER_EMAIL"].lower(); u=User.objects.filter(email=e).first() or _make_user(e); u.is_staff=True; u.is_superuser=True; u.set_password(os.environ["SUPERUSER_PASSWORD"]) if not u.has_usable_password() else None; u.save()'"'"'; exec uwsgi /opt/healthchecks/docker/uwsgi.ini'`
- **Health check:** /api/v3/status/
- **Public domain:** Yes

### Postgres

- **Image:** postgres:16-alpine@sha256:57c72fd2a128e416c7fcc499958864df5301e940bca0a56f58fddf30ffc07777

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Healthchecks on Railway

## About Hosting Healthchecks

Healthchecks is a BSD-licensed monitor for cron jobs and background tasks. This template runs the official 4.3 image with a bootstrapped administrator, closed registration, PostgreSQL, database-aware health checks, and durable storage.

## Why Deploy Healthchecks on Railway

One click creates a ready-to-use private account and a public ping endpoint while keeping PostgreSQL private. The official process also handles migrations, alerts, and periodic reports, so the deployment stays compact.

## Common Use Cases

- Detect missed cron jobs and scheduled backups.
- Track long-running task starts, successes, and failures.
- Send alerts through email, webhooks, chat, or incident tools.

## Dependencies for Healthchecks Hosting

The template uses immutable Healthchecks 4.3 and PostgreSQL 16 images. SMTP is optional, but email alerts and magic-link login require a configured mail server.

### Deployment Dependencies

- [Healthchecks](https://healthchecks.io) provides monitoring, ping endpoints, dashboards, and alert integrations.
- [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org) stores accounts, checks, pings, and integration configuration.
- [Railway](https://railway.com) provides networking, generated secrets, health checks, and persistent storage.


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