Heartbeat
A scheduled check-in where an agent wakes, reviews its tasks, acts, and reports its status.
Why it matters
Heartbeats create a reliable cadence — the agent checks in regularly, does its work, and goes back to sleep.
In practice
Our Monitor Agent (AL-MON-002) heartbeats every 5 minutes: checks site health, API response times, and SSL validity.
Related terms
Self-Healing
A system's ability to detect and fix errors without human intervention.
Webhook
An HTTP call triggered automatically by an event. The nervous system of agent architectures.
Workflow
A defined sequence of steps executed in order to achieve a goal.
Agent (AI Agent)
An AI system that plans, decides, and acts autonomously toward goals, rather than simply responding to prompts.