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Cronwatch
Cron job monitoring with instant alerts lifecycle tracking
CronWatch helps developers monitor cron jobs and scheduled tasks with simple heartbeat monitoring and lifecycle tracking. Get instant alerts via Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, or Webhooks when jobs fail, run late, timeout, or stop reporting. Setup takes less than a minute with a single ping URL—no agents or SDKs required.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Abhay, the solo developer behind CronWatch.
I built CronWatch after repeatedly running into a frustrating problem: cron jobs tend to fail silently. Whether it's a missed backup, a delayed payment sync, or a broken data pipeline, you often don't discover the issue until customers or teammates notice something is wrong.
I wanted a monitoring tool that was quick to set up, straightforward to use, and focused on scheduled jobs.
With CronWatch, you can monitor cron jobs using a simple heartbeat URL or use lifecycle monitoring for deeper execution tracking. It sends alerts through Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, and Webhooks when jobs fail, run late, timeout, or stop reporting.
Current features include:
• Heartbeat monitoring
• Lifecycle monitoring
• Multi-channel alerts
• Execution history
• Analytics and scheduled reports
• Smart reminders and recovery notifications
I'd genuinely love your feedback—whether it's about the onboarding experience, pricing, missing features, or anything else you think could make the product more useful.
Thanks for checking out CronWatch! 🚀
The single ping URL approach is a smart move—skipping the agent/SDK rabbit hole means I can wire up monitoring in 30 seconds without touching my existing code. Nice execution on the lifecycle tracking too, that's the kind of thing most cron monitors miss.
How does it differentiate between a job that ran late versus one that simply took longer than expected, so alerts stay accurate?
Finally something that does not ask me to install an SDK just to check if my crons are alive. The single ping URL setup was genuinely painless and the Slack alert fired right on time when I faked a missed job.
how does the alerting handle jobs that occasionally run a minute or two late, do you get paged every time or is there some grace window before it counts as a miss?
How does pricing work if some of our jobs need to ping every 30 seconds while others run just once a day, does that get tiered by total heartbeat volume or per monitor?
About Cronwatch on Product Hunt
“Cron job monitoring with instant alerts lifecycle tracking”
Cronwatch was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #155 on the daily leaderboard. CronWatch helps developers monitor cron jobs and scheduled tasks with simple heartbeat monitoring and lifecycle tracking. Get instant alerts via Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, or Webhooks when jobs fail, run late, timeout, or stop reporting. Setup takes less than a minute with a single ping URL—no agents or SDKs required.
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