LastPing is a dead-man's-switch monitor for the scheduled work that fails quietly — cron jobs, database backups, ETL, and CI pipelines. Your job checks in; if it stops, we tell you.
Each job hits a unique URL when it finishes. One line at the end of a script — no agent to install.
Miss the expected window and the check goes late, then down. Explicit /fail and start/duration tracking are supported too.
Down, recovery, and failure events route to the channels you choose — with flap damping and per-channel rate caps so you're not paged for a blip.
Email, Telegram, Slack, Discord, and signed webhooks — plus a Prometheus endpoint to scrape into your own Grafana.
curl https://ping.lastping.dev/<your-check-id> at the end of your backup script is all it takes.
Transactional only — no marketing, ever. LastPing emails an account owner when one of their own monitored jobs stops reporting in. Email recipients are double opt-in: an address must confirm via a verification link before it can receive any alert, and unverified addresses cannot be attached to a check. Bounces and complaints automatically disable the offending channel. Volume is low and event-driven — a handful of messages per incident, tied to real infrastructure failures.