Monitoring Home Assistant with UptimeRobot ( heartbeat monitor)

I’m very pleased with UptimeRobot [affiliate link] and their heartbeat monitoring.
It’s an URL you need to call/visit every x minutes/hours/days, whatever you want, and if its not hit within x time, outside of the grace period, it will alert you.

The RESTful integration is our magic glue here

I’ve added a rest_command to my config.yml

code to copy for you:

rest_command:
    uptimerobot_heartbeat:
        url: "https://heartbeat.uptimerobot.com/xxx"

give home assistant a quick restart, or whatever you have to do reload the config 🙃

Here is the YAML of the automation

alias: UptimeRobot ping heartbeat every minute
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    hours: "*"
    minutes: "*"
    seconds: "0"
condition: []
action:
  - service: rest_command.uptimerobot_heartbeat
    data: {}
mode: single