Drumbeats monitors cron jobs, APIs, and background tasks with heartbeat pings, alerting teams on Slack, Discord, or email when something fails or hangs.
Drumbeats is a heartbeat monitoring service for background jobs, cron tasks, APIs, and scheduled processes. Rather than polling a service from the outside to see if it's running, Drumbeats flips the model: each monitored job pings Drumbeats when it completes successfully, and Drumbeats raises an alert if that expected ping doesn't arrive, arrives too late, or a run takes longer than its usual duration.
The product is built by Lucky S Software, a small software studio that also takes on client engineering work in AI systems and infrastructure. Drumbeats gained early traction after being featured as a top daily launch on Open Launch and picked up by Wired Business, positioning it as a developer-focused tool built by a lean, independent team rather than a large monitoring vendor.
Setup is designed to take about a minute: a job just needs to send a single curl command (or equivalent HTTP request) when it finishes, with no SDK, agent, or open inbound port required. This means Drumbeats also works for jobs running behind corporate firewalls or in private networks, since the monitored system is always the one initiating the connection outward.
Drumbeats catches three distinct failure modes: a job that never runs (missed heartbeat), a job that runs but fails silently, and a job that hangs and runs far longer than expected. Alerts can go out over email, Slack, Telegram, Discord, or generic webhooks, and paid plans add public status pages with custom branding and integration with AI agents via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Drumbeats offers a free-forever plan supporting up to 50 monitors and 200,000 beats (pings) per month, with no credit card required to sign up. This is generous enough for individual developers or small side projects to run entirely on the free tier.
Paid plans remove the monitor cap: Pro is $20/month with unlimited monitors and up to 1 million beats per month, and Business is $49/month with unlimited monitors and up to 3 million beats per month. All plans, including the free tier, include unlimited team seats and all notification channels, so upgrading is purely about volume rather than unlocking collaboration features.
No, jobs just need to send a single HTTP request (like a curl command) on completion; no library or agent installation is required.
Yes, the free plan supports up to 50 monitors and 200,000 beats per month with no credit card required.
Email, Slack, Telegram, Discord, and generic webhooks are supported on all plans.
Yes, since monitored jobs initiate the outbound ping themselves, Drumbeats works even for jobs running in private networks.
It's built by Lucky S Software, a small software studio that also does client engineering work in AI and infrastructure.