Apify Maintenance Watchdog — Monitor Actor Fleet
Audits an Apify Actor portfolio for maintenance notices and deprecations, with optional active smoke tests. Produces per-Actor evidence and fails scheduled runs when the fleet needs attention.
Apify Maintenance Watchdog — Monitor Actor Fleet returns 11 documented output fields, including checkType, actorId, actorName, status and reason. Every field carries a declared type, a written description and an example value. 19 runs are recorded on Apify.
- 11
- Output fields
- 8
- Inputs
- 19
- Runs
- 2026-10-16
- Last run
01 — output
What it returns
Every field the extractor writes to its dataset, with its type, a written description and an example value.
| Field | Type | What it holds | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| checkType | stringnull | Check Type as recorded for this row. | <checkType> |
| actorId | stringnull | Identifier of the Actor. | <actorId> |
| actorName | stringnull | Name of the Actor. | <actorName> |
| status | stringnull | Outcome recorded for this row. | ok |
| reason | stringnull | Why this row carries its status. | row retrieved successfully |
| notice | stringnull | Notice as recorded for this row. | <notice> |
| isPublic | booleannull | Whether the source lists this record as public. | true |
| runStatus | stringnull | Status of the run that produced this row. | <runStatus> |
| items | integernull | The items this record carries. | [{"id":"1","name":"Widget"}] |
| expectedMinItems | integernull | Lowest item count a healthy response should return. Below this, the source may have changed shape. | 0 |
| durationMs | numbernull | Duration of the measured operation, in milliseconds. | 0 |
02 — sample
One record
Assembled from the example values declared on the schema above, not invented at render time.
{
"checkType": "<checkType>",
"actorId": "<actorId>",
"actorName": "<actorName>",
"status": "ok",
"reason": "row retrieved successfully",
"notice": "<notice>",
"isPublic": true,
"runStatus": "<runStatus>"
}03 — input
What you give it
| Input | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| auditPortfolio | booleanoptional | Check Actor notices, public state, and deprecation state through the Apify API without launching the checked Actors. |
| actorIds | arrayoptional | Specific Actor IDs or user/name references to audit. Empty audits every Actor accessible in the current account. |
| includePrivate | booleanoptional | Include private Actors when automatically discovering the portfolio. |
| runSmokeChecks | booleanoptional | Launch the configured Actors with tiny inputs. Off by default to keep scheduled metadata audits cheap. |
| checks | arrayoptional | Smoke checks: [{"actorId":"user/actor","input":{...},"expectMinItems":1,"timeoutSecs":300}]. Empty = the built-in default fleet. |
| concurrency | integeroptional | How many smoke runs at once (1-4). |
| memoryMbytes | integeroptional | Memory given to each checked actor's run. |
| failOnUnhealthy | booleanoptional | On (default): any maintenance notice, deprecated Actor, or unhealthy smoke check makes this run fail so Schedule notifications fire. |
04 — run
Run Apify Maintenance Watchdog on your own input
It runs in the cloud on Apify. Nothing to install, and you are billed per result returned rather than per attempt.
05 — questions
Asked before running it
11 of 11 fields described
- What does Apify Maintenance Watchdog — Monitor Actor Fleet return?
- It returns 11 documented output fields: checkType, actorId, actorName, status, reason, notice, isPublic, runStatus, items, expectedMinItems and durationMs. Each field declares its type, a description of what it holds, and an example value.
- What input does Apify Maintenance Watchdog — Monitor Actor Fleet take?
- All 8 inputs are optional and ship with usable defaults, so it runs as-is. They are listed with their types below.
- Does Apify Maintenance Watchdog — Monitor Actor Fleet need an API key or login?
- No. None of its inputs is a credential, and it reads only public data. Nothing to sign up for before the first run.
- How do I run Apify Maintenance Watchdog — Monitor Actor Fleet?
- It runs on Apify. Start it from its listing with the inputs above, or call the Apify API with the Actor's ID. Results land in a dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read through the Apify API into your own pipeline.