ABOUT / CRONITOR

We build for developers.

Cronitor builds monitoring tools for developers who care about reliability. When something breaks, we tell you fast with the context needed to fix it.

Where we are today

With five different monitoring tools in one platform, Cronitor helps over 70,000 developers and thousands of teams keep their software running smoothly:

  1. 01Cron job monitoring
  2. 02Website and API monitoring
  3. 03Heartbeat monitoring
  4. 04Website analytics and real user monitoring
  5. 05Hosted status pages

Building tools for developers is what we love doing, and we're grateful for the chance to make your work a little easier.

How it started

Cronitor started in March 2014 with a text message. August, the founding engineer at a logistics startup, had just experienced a critical cron job failing silently.

August texted Shane: “How do you monitor your cron jobs at work?”

Shane was working at a multi-billion dollar company. The answer? They didn't.

We compared notes, looked at what was available, and realized nobody had built something simple that just worked. So we decided to build it ourselves.

A few months later, Cronitor launched on Hacker News. The response told us we weren't the only ones with this problem.

Ten years later

We've stayed independent, grown with our community, and kept building tools we use ourselves every day. Each new feature came from listening to real problems:

  1. 2014Basic cron job monitoring
  2. 2016Uptime monitoring
  3. 2017CronitorCLI: one-command monitoring for cron jobs
  4. 2019Browser-based synthetic monitoring
  5. 2020Kubernetes integration
  6. 2022Status pages
  7. 2023Website analytics and real user monitoring
  8. 2025Cron Dashboard: a visual crontab editor for Linux
  9. 2026MCP server and AI agent monitoring

Over a decade in, we're still passionate about building tools that make developers' lives better. If that resonates with you, we'd love to help.

Thanks to everyone building cool stuff,

August & Shane
Founders