# SITE_NAME Documentation

SITE_NAME is a service for monitoring cron jobs and similar periodic processes:

- 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.

SITE_NAME works as a dead man's switch for processes that need to run continuously or on a regular, known schedule. For example:

- 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

SITE_NAME is not the right tool for:

- monitoring website uptime by probing it with HTTP requests
- collecting application performance metrics
- error tracking
- log aggregation