Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?

Hey there!

My team is hosting an API that sends open telemetry data to Signoz & manages on-call via PagerDuty. We've configured Signoz to hit Pagerduty when there's a series of 500 errors.

However, our server went down last night and NO opentel data was sent to Signoz. We weren't notified that the server went down as there weren't 500 responses to report. What's the easiest way to have a cron-like query hit our API and integrate with our existing stack? Is this feasible with our existing vendors? Should I have a serverless function running on a timer that uses Pagerduty's API? Should I be migrating to another monitoring service?

Any advice would be appreciated!

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