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CronAlive
Know when your cron job silently stops running
Scheduled jobs fail silently: no error page, no failed request, nothing in the logs you'd think to check. CronAlive is a dead man's switch — your job pings a URL after each run, and when a ping doesn't arrive in time, the alert is already in your Telegram. Heartbeats, HTTP uptime checks from three regions and TLS expiry warnings live in one dashboard. Flat pricing: 10 checks free, 100 for $7/mo. The Laravel package creates checks straight from your scheduler.
Hi PH 👋
I built CronAlive after the oldest embarrassment in ops: a nightly backup that had been failing for weeks, discovered on the day we actually needed it. The job produced no error, no log line, no failed request — absence is invisible, and that's exactly what monitoring usually misses.
So it's a dead man's switch: your job curls a URL after every run, and silence becomes the alert. Around that I added the parts I kept wanting: /start signals so a hung job is visible before it overlaps the next one, HTTP checks confirmed from a second region before they page you, and TLS expiry warnings — because "certbot ran" and "the new certificate reached the edge" are different claims.
What's rough, honestly: I'm one person, SMS alerts aren't implemented, and the SDKs are pre-1.0. If you need self-hosting, Healthchecks.io is open source and better for that — I say so on my own comparison page.
Free plan is 10 checks, no card. I'd especially like to hear what you monitor that you're not monitoring yet.
About CronAlive on Product Hunt
“Know when your cron job silently stops running”
CronAlive was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. Scheduled jobs fail silently: no error page, no failed request, nothing in the logs you'd think to check. CronAlive is a dead man's switch — your job pings a URL after each run, and when a ping doesn't arrive in time, the alert is already in your Telegram. Heartbeats, HTTP uptime checks from three regions and TLS expiry warnings live in one dashboard. Flat pricing: 10 checks free, 100 for $7/mo. The Laravel package creates checks straight from your scheduler.
On the analytics side, CronAlive competes within Productivity, SaaS and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how CronAlive performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted CronAlive?
CronAlive was hunted by Mihail Zubco. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of CronAlive including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Mihail Zubco