# Heartbeat monitors and per-monitor silence windows

- Date: 2026-08-27
- Categories: New
- Tags: Uptime
- Author: The EvoHub team
- URL: https://changelog-dev.evohub.io/heartbeat-monitors-and-per-monitor-silence-windows

> Monitor cron jobs and background workers with heartbeat monitors that alert when an expected ping does not arrive, and silence individual monitors during planned maintenance.

### Heartbeat monitors
- A new **Heartbeat** monitor type for cron jobs, backups and other scheduled work. Your job pings a unique URL, and EvoHub alerts when a ping is overdue.
- Set the expected interval and a grace period, from minutes up to 30 days, so daily and weekly jobs can be watched too.
- The monitor page shows the ping URL, a ready-to-paste `curl` command and the time of the last ping.
- An overdue heartbeat goes through the same notifications and On-Call escalation as any other monitor.

### Silence windows
- Individual monitors can be silenced for a window of time, for example by a maintenance window in On-Call, without muting the rest of your organization.
- The monitor list shows which monitors are silenced.