# healthchecks - notifications

Warning

Do not commit your credentials to a public repo!

You will need to be registered at healthchecks.io.

Note

To enable posting to Healthchecks Pinging API - a monitor MUST have `slug` defined.

Note

You need to generate `ping_key` for each of your project.

token
  Type:

    string

  Required:

    true

  Your project ping_key

create
  Type:

    bool

  Required:

    true

  Add create=1 param to support Auto provisioning - creating new checks for undeclared slugs

Warning

You might need to adjust some settings for the automatically created checks.

headers
  Type:

    JSON map as string

  Required:

    false

  Default:

    `{"User-Agent": "SimpleMonitor"}`

  Add custom headers for the POST request

timeout
  Type:

    int

  Required:

    false

  Default:

    `5`

  Timeout for HTTP request