Your GitHub scheduled workflow can fail quietly for days
Add one step to ping SilentFail and detect broken schedules fast.
Nightly CI, backup, and maintenance workflows silently failing means compounding technical and data risk.
- Schedule drift goes unnoticed
- Failed runs blend into noisy CI timelines
- No single alerting view across repositories
Step 1
Create a SilentFail check for each critical workflow
Step 2
Add a curl step on workflow success (and optional fail step)
Step 3
Route missing or failed-run alerts to your on-call channel
GitHub Actions step
- name: Ping SilentFail
if: success()
run: curl -X POST "https://silentfail.dev/api/ping/YOUR_TOKEN/success"Built for developers. No credit card. Free for 1 check.
Lightweight ping API for cron, queue, and serverless runtimes.
Alerting channels: email + Slack, with event history for audits.
Public status available at /status.
Can I monitor many repos?
Yes, one check per workflow keeps attribution clear.
Do retries create false positives?
Set expected intervals and grace windows to match retry behavior.
Can I test before production?
Yes, trigger manual dispatch and confirm a success ping.
Can this track workflow failures?
Yes, send a fail ping in a failure step.
Do I need GitHub Apps permissions?
No special integration is required for ping-based monitoring.