Use Cases
What Are You Trying to Monitor?
PingPug is a dead man's switch for background jobs. Your script pings us when it finishes. If it doesn't check in on time, your team gets an immediate alert via Email, Discord, or Telegram. Pick your use case below to see exactly how it works.
Monitor Database Backup Jobs
Your nightly pg_dump runs at 2 AM. Your web server stays green all night. But if the backup script hits a disk quota, a permission error, or an OOM kill, your database goes un-backed-up for days—and you find out the moment you desperately need to restore.
Common silent failure modes:
- ✗OOM kill mid-dump leaves a corrupt partial file with no error log
- ✗Disk quota reached silently — script exits 0, writes nothing
- ✗pg_dump credentials expire after a password rotation
- ✗Backup directory permissions break after a deploy
One URL. One ping. That's the whole integration.
Add a single curl or HTTP call to the end of your script. PingPug expects it on schedule. If it doesn't arrive, you get alerted immediately.