Hypothetical Automation - "I'm still running!"

So kind of a weird idea/musing, but I've been contemplating setting up some sort of automation that sends out a "I'm still running" e-mail to admins every hour just so it's a bit easier to keep an eye on the community and ensure it's still up. We have some massive issues with network instability (not due to Telligent - it's just how our infrastructure is), so right now I find myself rather obsessively checking.

How would you go about writing something like this? Any ideas?

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  • Another option is there are many good, affordable uptime monitors (UptimeRobot, Pingdom, BetterUptime, StatusCake) that are and in some cases free (or sub $10/month) if monitoring one site. These can check as frequents as 1 minutes and notify user(s) immediatly. Since a recurring automation will run on the job server the benefit of these are the requests are coming from external vs possibly (internal depending on your IT setup) and the job server may be able to access the site but members cannot. Also, having a service like this that pings means the notification of an alert means something is potentially wrong vs realizing having to realize no notification (i.e. assuming the job send I am still running) means something may be wrong.

  • I was thinking about those, but our community is entirely internal with no option for external access. You must have very specific credentials (multiple levels) to access the community. So my thought process was something on the platform that effectively needs multiple aspects of the community job service to successfully run.

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