CronSafe
CronSafe monitors your cron jobs, scheduled tasks, and background workers using a dead man's switch (heartbeat) pattern. If your job doesn't ping CronSafe within the expected interval, you get alerted instantly via Slack, email, or webhook.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
Features
- Cron Job Monitoring
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Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription that costs up to $9 per month + free version with limited functionality.Alternatives
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What is CronSafe?
CronSafe monitors your cron jobs, scheduled tasks, and background workers using a dead man's switch (heartbeat) pattern. If your job doesn't ping CronSafe within the expected interval, you get alerted instantly via Slack, email, or webhook.
Key features:
- Dead man's switch monitoring (heartbeat pattern)
- Explicit fail endpoint to report errors
- Overlap detection (alerts if a job starts before the previous one finishes)
- Job output capture directly in Slack alerts
- Escalating reminders and configurable grace periods
- Weekly summary reports
- 20 monitors free, unlimited at €9/month flat
- EU-hosted (Hetzner, Germany), GDPR compliant
- Simple integration: just add a curl ping to the end of your script
CronSafe was built after a backup script silently stopped running for 11 days at a client project. Nobody noticed until they needed a restore. Whether you use cron, systemd timers, Kubernetes CronJobs, GitHub Actions, or any scheduler — CronSafe makes sure your jobs actually run.