# Envoyer - Projects/Heartbeats
*Source: https://docs.envoyer.io/projects/heartbeats*
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- [Overview](#overview)
- [Heartbeat URLs](#heartbeat-urls)
- [Calling Manually](#calling-manually)
- [Calling With Laravel](#calling-with-laravel)
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# Heartbeats
Learn how to monitor your application’s cron jobs.
## [](#overview) Overview
Heartbeats provide a monitoring mechanism for your Cron jobs or any other scheduled task performed by your application. You may select from a variety of schedule frequencies when creating the heartbeat. So, for example, if your scheduled job runs daily, you should select the 1 Day monitoring option.
After creating a heartbeat, a unique URL will be assigned to the heartbeat. When this URL is called via a HTTP `GET` request, the “Last Check-In” time of your heartbeat will be updated.
If Envoyer does not receive a check-in from your job within the specified monitoring frequency, a notification will be sent to your configured notification channels.
## [](#heartbeat-urls) Heartbeat URLs
### [](#calling-manually) Calling Manually
If you are manually modifying your server’s `/etc/crontab` file to define scheduled tasks, you can simply append a curl request to your Cron command. For example:
/etc/crontab
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* * * * * user php command && curl http://beats.envoyer.io/heartbeat-id
```
### [](#calling-with-laravel) Calling With Laravel
If you’re using Laravel’s task scheduler, you may use the `thenPing` method on your scheduled job.
app/Console/Kernel.php
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```
$schedule->command('foo')->thenPing('http://beats.envoyer.io/heartbeat-id');
```
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