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Healthchecks.io Landing Page
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Healthchecks.io

Monitor your cron jobs and scheduled tasks, get notified when they fail.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- $20.0 / Monthly (100 checks, 10 team members)
If you are ok with a Saas and if it's just scheduled jobs that you are monitoring, there are a number of monitoring tools where you tell when job completes (with a http request) and a missing ping (after a grace period) means that it failed. I think https://deadmanssnitch.com/ may have been the original service for this. https://healthchecks.io/ has a fairly generous free tier that I use now. There are others that do the same thing Sentry, Uptime Robot, ...

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Ntfy Landing Page
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Ntfy

Send notifications to your phone via HTTP
Pricing:
- Open Source
Uptime-Kuma [1] with ntfy [2]. Most of my services expose HTTP so I just have Uptime-Kuma monitor that. But if you have something that is not exposed to the public you can still use a "push" type monitor, and in a cron job on your server(s), send heartbeat to it when everything is working. [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma.

#Cron Monitoring #Cron #Website Monitoring 61 social mentions
Dead Man's Snitch Landing Page

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Dead Man's Snitch

Monitor Cron Jobs and Windows Scheduled Tasks with ease.

If you are ok with a Saas and if it's just scheduled jobs that you are monitoring, there are a number of monitoring tools where you tell when job completes (with a http request) and a missing ping (after a grace period) means that it failed. I think https://deadmanssnitch.com/ may have been the original service for this. https://healthchecks.io/ has a fairly generous free tier that I use now. There are others that do the same thing Sentry, Uptime Robot, ...

#Cron Monitoring #Cron #Monitoring Tools 9 social mentions
Cronitor Landing Page

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Cronitor

Monitor cron jobs, micro-services, daemons and almost anything else, no setup required. Easier cron troubleshooting and no more silent failures.

Https://cronitor.io/ is another option here that works for me. You can set up rules like "It should run once a day and return after at least this amount of time and also return a number greater than 1" Then just use come curl calls to your scripts at start and end and you are good to go.

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Cronhub Landing Page

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Cronhub

Cronhub helps you to easily monitor all your cron jobs in a beautiful dashboard. It alerts you when your cron job doesn't run on time or it fails.

You can also try https://cronhub.io (I run it).

#Cron #Cron Monitoring #DevOps Tools 7 social mentions
Uptime Kuma Landing Page

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Uptime Kuma

A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool.

Uptime-Kuma [1] with ntfy [2]. Most of my services expose HTTP so I just have Uptime-Kuma monitor that. But if you have something that is not exposed to the public you can still use a "push" type monitor, and in a cron job on your server(s), send heartbeat to it when everything is working. [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma.

#Website Monitoring #Uptime Monitoring #Monitoring Tools 97 social mentions