How to Install Healthchecks on Windows 10

Healthchecks is a web-based monitoring tool that helps you keep track of your periodically-run job systems. Self-hosted Healthchecks provides an alternative way of running and managing Healthchecks on your Windows 10 machine. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Healthchecks on Windows 10.

Prerequisites

• A Windows 10 machine
• Python 3.5 or higher already installed
• A command prompt or terminal

Steps

1. Open your command prompt or terminal.
2. Install virtualenv: pip install virtualenv.
3. Create a virtual environment to install Healthchecks into: virtualenv myenv.
4. Activate the virtual environment: myenv\Scripts\activate.
5. Install Healthchecks: pip install healthchecks.
6. Go to your installation directory by typing cd \myenv\Lib\site-packages\healthchecks
7. Generate a configuration file by typing python manage.py healthchecks --configure.
8. Edit the config.py file to suit your needs. This file contains your database and email configuration options.
9. Create the database by running python manage.py migrate
10. Collect all static files by running python manage.py collectstatic
11. Run the application python manage.py runserver
12. Open your browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to access Healthchecks.

You have now successfully installed and configured Healthchecks on your Windows 10 machine. You can now add your jobs and start monitoring them.