cronbeat

Your backup job failed
at 3am. You found out at 3am.

Point your cron job at a CronBeat URL when it finishes. Silence past the grace period means you get alerted.

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Free: 5 checks, email alerts, forever.

UP

last ping

2m ago

period

24h

grace

1h

next ping due in

04:59

okyesterday 02:00

live demo - let the timer run out

crontab -e 
# nightly backup, ping on success
0 2 * * * /usr/local/bin/backup.sh \
  && curl -fsS http://localhost:8113/ping/YOUR_SLUG

# explicit failure signal
cmd || curl -fsS http://localhost:8113/ping/YOUR_SLUG/fail

curl is the whole SDK.

Any language, any scheduler, any server that can make an HTTP request. Append one command and the job reports itself.

  • success pings on GET or HEAD
  • explicit failure pings via /fail
  • no agent, no daemon, no config file

The night it went down.

What a late ping looks like from the outside. The alert lands while you are still asleep, not when you next notice the missing report.

00:02 ping ok 01:02 ping ok 03:07 grace elapsed ! 04:00 alert emailed 07:15 recovered

example check - nightly-db-backup, hourly grace

Dead-man's switch

Silence is the alarm. No ping past period plus grace flips the check to DOWN and fires your alert. Recovery fires when pings resume.

UP LATE +grace DOWN + alert recovered

Fail pings

Your job can report its own failures. A non-zero exit becomes an instant alert.

5 min

Grace periods

How late is acceptable, configured per job.

Cron-expression aware

*/15 * * * *

Schedules follow real crontab syntax, so a job that runs every fifteenth minute is not approximated with a fixed interval.

Built for the price of one cron job going wrong.

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Entry price $9/mo $5/mo $20/mo
Cron-expression schedules yes yes paid tiers
Webhook alerts Pro paid tiers paid tiers
Modern dashboard yes dated yes

competitor positioning per public pricing pages, 2026

“Three client servers, forty cron jobs, one dashboard. The 4am pages stopped.”

Ravi Menon

DevOps consultant

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