PulseMon

PulseMon: Heartbeat Monitoring for Cron Jobs & Background Tasks

Cron jobs and background workers fail silently. No crash report, no error page, no alert. They just stop. Your users notice before you do.

PulseMon monitors scheduled tasks by expecting a regular heartbeat ping. When a job stops checking in, you get alerted.

How It Works

1. Create a monitor and set the expected ping interval
2. Add a ping to your job — a single HTTP request at the end of a run
3. Get alerted if the ping doesn't arrive on time

No agents. No instrumentation. Just a URL your job hits when it's done.

Features

Heartbeat Monitoring — each monitor waits for a ping on schedule. Miss the window, trigger an alert. Works with any language or stack.

Zombie Job Detection — catch tasks that are alive but have stopped doing useful work, which most monitoring tools miss.

Overlap Detection — know when a new run starts before the previous one finishes.

Explicit Failure Alerts — ping with a failure signal to trigger an instant alert without waiting for a missed window.

Status Pages — share job health with your team or customers. Included on all plans.

2-Minute Check Intervals — fast detection without enterprise pricing.

Pricing

30 monitors free. No credit card required. Paid plans unlock more monitors and faster intervals.