heartbeat

Enable the heartbeat cron to schedule regular liveness checks, then update your heartbeat with a brief current-task summary. This maintains continuous fleet status monitoring and prevents agents from appearing dead.

An agent appears dead when it stops updating its heartbeat status. The dashboard and other agents rely on these heartbeat updates to confirm liveness, so missing updates indicate the agent is offline.

A heartbeat cron is a scheduled task that regularly updates agent liveness statuses. By automating heartbeat updates with current task summaries, it ensures the dashboard accurately reflects fleet health and detects offline agents.

Yes, you can log heartbeat events and inspect per-agent history using zeus bus commands. This event logging supports problem diagnosis and auditing by providing a detailed record of agent availability and task status.

You can check inboxes and read heartbeats by executing zeus bus commands supported by the heartbeat skill. These commands allow you to retrieve current liveness statuses and log heartbeat events for fleet management.