diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index bab59bd..bcb5a1f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -68,11 +68,7 @@ songbird = { version = "0.6.0", default-features = false, features = [
 ] }
 strum = { version = "0.28.0", features = ["derive"] }
 time = "0.3.47"
-tokio = { version = "1.46.0", features = [
-    "rt-multi-thread",
-    "macros",
-    "signal",
-] }
+tokio = { version = "1.46.0", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "signal", "time"] }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7.18", features = ["io"] }
 tokio-websockets-0-13 = { package = "tokio-websockets", version = "0.13", features = [
     "rustls-webpki-roots",
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 01a9b28..dbc2f7b 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ use songbird::{
     driver::{Channels, DecodeConfig, SampleRate},
     shards::TwilightMap,
 };
-use std::{collections::BTreeMap, fmt::Debug, str::FromStr, sync::Arc};
+use std::{collections::BTreeMap, fmt::Debug, str::FromStr, sync::Arc, time::Duration};
 use strum::EnumString;
 use tokio::{select, signal::ctrl_c, task::JoinSet};
 use tokio_util::{sync::CancellationToken, time::FutureExt as _};
@@ -416,6 +416,17 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), MainError> {
         }
     });
 
+    tokio::spawn(async {
+        let duration = Duration::from_secs(120);
+        let mut interval = tokio::time::interval(duration);
+
+        loop {
+            interval.tick().await;
+
+            tracing::debug!("this process is still alive");
+        }
+    });
+
     select! {
         _ = &mut run_shards => {
             Ok(())