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- # SITE_NAME Documentation
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- SITE_NAME is a service for monitoring cron jobs and similar periodic processes:
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- * SITE_NAME **listens for HTTP requests ("pings")** from your cron jobs and scheduled
- tasks.
- * It **keeps silent** as long as pings arrive on time.
- * It **raises an alert** as soon as a ping does not arrive on time.
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- SITE_NAME works as a [dead man's switch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch) for processes that need to
- run continuously or on a regular, known schedule. For example:
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- * filesystem backups, database backups
- * task queues
- * database replication status
- * report generation scripts
- * periodic data import and sync jobs
- * periodic antivirus scans
- * DDNS updater scripts
- * SSL renewal scripts
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- SITE_NAME is *not* the right tool for:
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- * monitoring website uptime by probing it with HTTP requests
- * collecting application performance metrics
- * error tracking
- * log aggregation
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