Cron Job Monitoring That Alerts When Pings Stop
CronCraft is a heartbeat monitor: your job sends one HTTP request when it finishes successfully. If the ping does not arrive on schedule (plus your grace period), you get alerted — email on every tier, Slack and webhooks on Pro+.
No agent on the server. Works with Linux cron, macOS launchd, or anything that can run curl. For platform-specific guides, see Bash, Python, or Kubernetes CronJobs.
What “monitoring” means here
We do not parse your syslog or ship a daemon. We answer one question: did the job prove it completed on time? That is the same model as Healthchecks-style monitors and is ideal for backups, billing batches, and ETL.
Grace periods
Long-running jobs get a configurable buffer before CronCraft treats a missed window as an incident — fewer 3am pages when a job is slow but healthy. That behavior pairs well with dead man's switch monitoring terminology.
Dependency chains (Pro+)
Model job B depending on job A so a broken upstream does not leave downstream work silently stale. More in cron job dependency management.