runitor mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• runitor

Projektgeschichte

Runitor was created as a small Go command runner integrating periodic jobs with healthchecks.io or a compatible private instance.

It grew beyond a simple wrapper to support interval and cron-expression scheduling, automatic check creation, output attachment, API retry controls, configurable outcome handling, signed binaries, and multi-platform container images.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Runitor is distributed through signed release binaries, Go installation, container images, Homebrew, and Nix. This makes it usable both on conventional hosts and in one-process-per-container deployments.

Wie es verwendet wird

Invoke `runitor -- command` with a check UUID, or use a project ping key and check slug. Checks may be identified through flags or environment variables such as `CHECK_UUID`, `PING_KEY`, and `CHECK_SLUG`; values can be read from an arbitrary file by adding the `file:` prefix. The `-every` and `-at` options run commands periodically, while output-capture controls help prevent sensitive backup details from being attached to pings.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Runitor packages the common cron-plus-curl health-check pattern into a dedicated executable with exit-code handling, output capture, retries, scheduling, and secret indirection. It is attractive in minimal containers where adding a full cron daemon or shell monitoring wrapper would be excessive.

Zeitleiste

• The project began as a Go wrapper for reporting command results to healthchecks.io.
• Later development added scheduling, richer ping behavior, retries, signed releases, and container distribution.

Related projects

• healthchecks.io supplies the dead-man's-switch monitoring service to which runitor reports. Cron and systemd timers are alternative schedulers; runitor can also provide basic scheduling when those services are unavailable.

Quellen

• Input package availability: source_facts.package-manager
• Official releases: https://github.com/bdd/runitor/releases
• Official repository and README: https://github.com/bdd/runitor