Cron Monitor

Dead-simple cron job monitoring

✅ One curl command
🔔 Instant alerts
🌍 Global edge
🆓 Free tier
# Add to your cron job:
0 * * * * /path/to/backup.sh && curl https://cron.rapidtools.dev/ping/abc123

# Get alerted if it fails to run

✅ Simple Setup

Add one curl command to your cron job. That's it.

🔔 Instant Alerts

Get notified immediately when your cron jobs fail.

🆓 Free Tier

Monitor up to 5 jobs for free. Forever.

Create Monitor

Your Monitors

How It Works

  1. Create a monitor above
  2. Add the ping URL to your cron job:
    curl https://cron.rapidtools.dev/ping/YOUR_MONITOR_ID
  3. Get alerted if your job doesn't run on schedule

Monitoring Timeline

Visual example of cron job health monitoring

00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 04:00 ⚠️ Alert Sent Job failed to run

Green = successful ping • Red = missed ping → instant webhook alert