Cron and heartbeat monitoring
Dead man's switches for scheduled work. A job pings a URL when it runs, and the tool alerts when a ping is late or missing.
Read first: Heartbeat and cron job monitoring.
Lists: Cron job monitoring tools in 2026 Best cron job monitoring tools in 2026
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Synthetic monitoring for developers: API checks and Playwright browser checks written as code, deployed from CI and run from many regions.
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Heartbeat monitoring for cron jobs with HTTP uptime and TLS expiry checks, plus Laravel, Python and Node packages that create checks from code.
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Monitoring for cron jobs, background workers and scheduled tasks that tracks run duration and failures, plus website uptime checks and status pages.
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Dead man's switch for cron jobs and scheduled tasks: each job checks in to a unique URL, and a missed check-in triggers an alert.
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Cron job, heartbeat and uptime monitoring with incident tracking and status pages, billed by check-in volume rather than monitor count.
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Cron job and heartbeat monitoring: each job pings a unique URL, and a missed or late ping sends an alert. The server is open source and can be self-hosted.
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Dead man's switch monitoring for cron jobs, CI pipelines and AI agents, with an MCP server so agents can set up their own monitors.
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Command runner for Healthchecks.io: wraps a job, sends start, success or failure pings with its output, and also works with self-hosted Healthchecks.
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Heartbeat and scheduled-task monitoring alongside website uptime, SSL, DNS and domain checks, priced per monitor.
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Self-hosted monitor for HTTP, keyword, TCP, ping, DNS, Docker and push checks, with status pages and dozens of notification integrations.
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Cron job monitoring with heartbeat pings and alerts, plus hosted cron jobs that call your URLs on a schedule.
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Heartbeat monitoring and status pages for cron jobs, backups and background workers, with an MCP server and free plans for open source projects.
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