hi @Serhii! about (1), we were discussing exactly that last week, feel free to weigh in https://github.com/orchest/orchest/issues/120 at the moment, the best workaround would be to add custom logic to your notebook/script that pings a given service of your choice. but we plan to improve this very soon

Thanks. Yep, I can do some custom stuff but no way to make it 100% reliable from inside the code

correct, a huge

try ... except

would be needed. we hope to bring a better solution very soon