Introducing the Cloudize Heatbeat Proxy Platform Service

We're excited to announce the general availability of the Cloudize Heartbeat Proxy Platform Service — a simple yet powerful tool designed to solve a common challenge in modern, distributed systems: Heartbeat de-duplication.

Whether you're running workloads across multiple nodes, containers, or regions, the Heartbeat Proxy helps you avoid upstream rate limiting, protect third-party integrations like UptimeRobot, and simplify heartbeat management — without sacrificing visibility or reliability.

The Cloudize Heartbeat Proxy Platform acts as a smart intermediary between your scaled-out services and upstream monitoring platforms (like UptimeRobot). It intelligently deduplicates heartbeat signals at a service level and ensures that only one clean, consolidated heartbeat is forwarded upstream — no matter how many sources are reporting in.

This means:

• No more duplicate heartbeats.
• No risk of hitting rate limits.
• No hacks or complex coordination logic.

In horizontally scaled systems — like containerized apps, Kubernetes pods, or autoscaling server groups — it's common to have multiple nodes independently sending heartbeat pings. While this ensures redundancy, it also creates a new problem: Upstream monitoring tools (e.g. UptimeRobot) may reject or rate-limit requests if they receive too many heartbeats from the same service.

The Cloudize Heartbeat Proxy elegantly solves this by deduplicating heartbeats in real-time, forwarding a single, consolidated heartbeat to the upstream service.

Accepts heartbeats from multiple sources, intelligently deduplicates them, and forwards only one per interval to upstream services.

Built on the Cloudize API Framework, and using an in-memory database, the service is blazingly fast.

Let’s say you have a web service running in a Kubernetes cluster with 25 pods. Each pod is configured to send a heartbeat to UptimeRobot every 30 seconds.

UptimeRobot receives 25 heartbeats every 30 seconds. At this level, you're at risk of being rate-limited, and your service is likely to trigger an incident as a result.

All 25 pods send heartbeats to the proxy. The proxy consolidates them and forwards one clean heartbeat to UptimeRobot per minute.

UptimeRobot stays happy, and you don't get false positive incidents waking you up at night.

With the Cloudize Heartbeat Proxy Platform, managing heartbeats in modern, scaled-out environments just got a whole lot easier. You get peace of mind, clean integrations, and protection from rate limits — all with minimal setup.

Heartbeat smarter — not harder.