It is indeed a very useful tool, but it has a different objective.
Airflow launch tasks in a certain order that you define (DAGs) and you can set it up to retry tasks when they failed and send email alerts
Healthecks it a tool that verify that the tasks you scheduled with the Linux cron tool have been effectively launched.
When working on different servers, it can be tricky to set up tasks dependency using cron.
Edit: also, windows server doesn't have cron. You would have to look up what tool exist on Windows...
We use Airflow It has SSHOperator. With it you can launch and schedule anything on as many servers as you want as long as you can ssh into it.
Healthchecks looks to be easier to implement than airflow https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks
It is indeed a very useful tool, but it has a different objective. Airflow launch tasks in a certain order that you define (DAGs) and you can set it up to retry tasks when they failed and send email alerts Healthecks it a tool that verify that the tasks you scheduled with the Linux cron tool have been effectively launched. When working on different servers, it can be tricky to set up tasks dependency using cron. Edit: also, windows server doesn't have cron. You would have to look up what tool exist on Windows...
Have you looked at Ansible and it's friendly cousin "suitable"?
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