There should be a feature-flag for this that is disabled by default.
The URL to send the ping to and the interval should be configurable, besides the api-key, if needed.
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[ ] Make sure you do not include new dependencies in the project unless strictly necessary and do not include dev-dependencies as production ones. More dependencies increase the possibility of one of them being hijacked and affecting us.
Acceptance Criteria
This feature will allow sending pings every time the data collector runs to an external uptime monitor service (see https://github.com/topics/uptime-monitor and https://github.com/topics/uptime for options, some of them are able to receive these pings)
There should be a feature-flag for this that is disabled by default.
The URL to send the ping to and the interval should be configurable, besides the api-key, if needed.
Security Checklist