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Cron Job Monitoring

Cron jobs and scheduled tasks can fail silently and create chaos.

Cronitor protects you by monitoring every job and instantly alerting the right person when something goes wrong.

  • Works with any kind of cron job
  • Prevent problems instead of just reacting to them

cron job

scheduled event

task scheduler

Kubernetes cron job

java cron job

jenkins job

Heartbeat Monitoring

Heartbeat monitoring from Cronitor gives you an instant pulse on the health of the background jobs, data pipelines and daemons where the real work of your application is done.

If a heartbeat stops, you'll be alerted instantly.

  • Easy to use with any platform or language
  • Flexible rules and alert policies for any situation

Heartbeat

queue worker

data pipeline

Daemon

ETL Job

Script

Uptime Monitoring

When your website or API is down you need to know fast.

Cronitor has you covered.  Create simple uptime checks, or build complex tests with custom assertions.

  • Global uptime and performance monitoring
  • No false alarms, we always double check

website

API

server

S3 Bucket

IoT Devices

Cloud Service

Instant alerts when your critical background jobs, data pipelines and APIs fail.

Cronitor's approach to continuous monitoring detects problems in seconds and sends alerts to your team instantly.

Trigger and manage incidents directly from the tools you already use.

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Thousands of users ❤️ Cronitor.  We think you will too.

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"I was finding too many cases where our cron jobs would silently fail - we sometimes would not find out for days that a job was broken. Cronitor gives our team the confidence and peace of mind that if a job is not running, we'll know fast."

Gary Malouf
VP, Technology
Chime

"Cronitor has increased our Operations staff's efficiency and responsiveness immensely. Their spin on micro-monitoring represents a best-in-class solution to the age old problem of visibility."

Ethan Erchinger
Director of Operations
BabyList

"Before we used Cronitor, we had an important data export fail silently for over a month. We use Cronitor so that will never happen again."

Natalie Gordon
CEO
EverTrue

"Cronitor provides a simple way for us to report the general health of all of our services. The API is extremely simple to use, and integration with PagerDuty has made this a critical component of our monitoring infrastructure."

Mark Greene
Director of Platform

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Cronitor is the utility-knife style monitoring tool you need to cover your backend, while you focus on growing your business.

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