Recent Updates

API Dashboard

• Enhancement: ping api /ok endpoint to reset a monitor back to healthy status until the next scheduled run.
• Enhancement: dashboard pause feature will automatically send an /ok ping when your monitor is unpaused.

Dashboard

• Enhancement: discover will no longer create monitors for meta cron jobs like cron.daily or cron.monthly
• Enhancement: dashboard will no longer display monitors for meta cron jobs like cronitor discover

• Fix: discover will not crash when hostnames are longer than 55 characters
• Enhancement: discover now includes the cron job administration tools list, select and shell

• Fix: discover will no longer create monitors with duplicate names in some edge conditions
• Fix: discover will display an interactive prompt even when no $PS1 is set
• Enhancement: discover now supports the editing of auto-generated names at the interactive prompt
• Enhancement: For compatibility with older systems, a 32-bit build is now available

• Enhancement: discover will prompt a user to save updated crontab if no automatic --save flag is supplied

• Enhancement: discover can now be supplied a path to a single crontab or a directory of crontabs.
• Enhancement: discover will automatically find jobs in /etc/cron.d when run as a root user.
• Enhancement: discover interactive shell is cleaner and more descriptive.

• Fix: exec will no longer strip newline characters from stdout and stderr.
• Enhancement: Increase reliability of Ping API communication with longer timeout and more advanced retry logic.

• Enhancement: exec will relay signals. Signals will now be ignored by the exec process and sent directly to the subprocess. Note that in Unix-based operating systems like Linux SIGKILL cannot be caught or relayed.
• Enhancement: exec will return stdout and stderr from subprocess as a combined stdout stream. Before this change the output was buffered until the subprocess exited.
• Enhancement: exec will relay the exit code from the subprocess. If your subprocess returns code 127, exec will return 127.

• Fix: exec will no longer append a newline when writing stdout from the subprocess.

• Fix: Properly handle notification templates with dots in their key. Before this change templates with keys like ops.default couldn't be deleted.

• Fix: discover increase timeout to accommodate crontab files with hundreds of jobs.

• Enhancement: New NotRunAt rule type for heartbeat monitors. With this rule type you will be alerted if a ping is not sent by a certain time each day.
• Enhancement: More detailed monitor status text
• Enhancement: Better monitor initialization emails
• Fix: Upgrade SAML SSO library in response to authentication bypass vulnerability

• Enhancement: Notification lists can now be created and updated from your dashboard. Before this change the feature was only available via the API and was called "templates". All templates have been turned into notification lists.

• Enhancement: discover can accept a --notification-list argument
• Enhancement: exec will now set the environment variable CRONITOR_EXEC=1 so a process can know if it's being run under exec.

• Enhancement: discover interactive mode to easily customize monitor names during crontab import.
• Enhancement: discover will automatically find your user crontab if no file is supplied.