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Comment on Show HN: Dead man's switch without reliance on your infraparent

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If the infra goes down, you fix it while alive, otherwise the snooze timeout on the PagerDuty incident will expire and that will trigger the configured tasks. If PagerDuty goes out of business before that, then that's a different discussion.

My point was - if you're going to rely on a SaaS (Pagerduty), why not just use one that includes health check monitoring (ie cronitor) and cut out this self hosted webhook service?

Deadcheck handles calculating the snooze durations for you. It could be a library as well.

Exactly. At Moov we rely on PD, so if they’re down we have bigger issues anyway. I plan to support additional integrations so a check-in could update multiple

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