Monitor Cron Jobs, Microservices, and More.

Easy cron monitoring

Intelligent cron job and scheduled task monitoring. Receive alerts when your jobs fail. See history and performance trends from any device. Sleep better at night with improved visibility into your jobs, tasks and scripts.

Service health checks

If it can make or receive HTTP requests you can monitor it with Cronitor. Monitor microservices, websites, APIs and almost anything else. Global uptime monitoring and powerful health checks for your critical services.

Instant alerts

Cronitor alerts are fast because we continuously evaluate your monitoring activity. Ensure the right people are notified with easy integrations like Slack, Hipchat and PagerDuty.

How Cronitor Works

Create a new cron job monitor using your cron schedule. You will be given a unique ping URL.

Tell Cronitor when your job runs by adding the cron expression

Add the ping to your crontab or your script directly. Ping before and after your job to monitor duration.

~ $ crontab -l
# m h dom mon dow   command

*/15 * * * 1-5 /mysqlbackup.sh &&
curl https://cronitor.link/d3x0c1/complete

~ $

Define the rules your pings will be evaluated against. You will be given a unique ping URL.

Create rules that will be applied to your

Instrument your code with Cronitor pings. Ping both /run and /complete endpoints to monitor duration.

~ $ head important_script.py
from urllib2 import urlopen
urlopen('https://cronitor.link/d3x0c1/run')

# Do Everything Here

urlopen('https://cronitor.link/d3x0c1/complete')

Monitor server and API health with rich assertions against status code, response time and response body.