Cronitor — Free Plan for Startups

Deal Highlights

Cronitor — Monitoring for Cron Jobs and Background Tasks

Cronitor monitors your scheduled tasks, background jobs, and heartbeat services — alerting you when they fail, run late, or take too long. If you have cron jobs, Celery tasks, Sidekiq workers, or any recurring process, Cronitor ensures they run correctly.

The Silent Failure Problem

Cron jobs fail silently. A nightly data sync stops working and nobody notices for a week. A billing job hangs and customers stop getting invoices. Cronitor catches these failures the moment they happen.

How It Works

Ping a unique Cronitor URL at the start and end of your job. Cronitor tracks run time, detects failures, alerts on late or missing runs, and provides a dashboard showing the health of all your background processes. Integration takes one line of code.

Beyond Cron

Cronitor monitors any recurring process — not just cron. Celery tasks, Sidekiq jobs, Lambda functions, GitHub Actions, database backups, and health checks. If it runs on a schedule, Cronitor monitors it.

Cronitor vs Uptime Robot

Uptime Robot monitors website availability. Cronitor monitors scheduled task execution. Different tools for different problems. Many teams use both.

Getting Started

1. Sign up through SaaSOffers for a free plan
2. Create a monitor for your cron job
3. Add one ping URL to your job script
4. Get alerted when jobs fail or run late

Pricing

Free plan includes 5 monitors. Developer at $5/month adds 20 monitors. Business at $15/month adds 100 monitors with advanced features.

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