Cronitor

Monitoring for developers.

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Overview

Cronitor is a monitoring service built for developers. It specializes in monitoring background jobs (cron jobs), but also provides uptime monitoring for websites and APIs. A key feature is its ability to automatically generate status pages based on the health of your monitors, providing a real-time, automated view of your system's status.

✨ Key Features

  • Cron job and background task monitoring
  • Website and API uptime monitoring
  • Integrated and automated status pages
  • Real-time alerting (Slack, PagerDuty, etc.)
  • Performance metrics and insights
  • Developer-centric tools and SDKs

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Best-in-class cron job and background task monitoring.
  • Status pages are automatically driven by monitor status.
  • Strong developer focus with open-source SDKs.

Unique Value: Provides developers with peace of mind by offering robust, easy-to-implement monitoring for their most critical background tasks, with the added benefit of automated status pages.

🎯 Use Cases (3)

Ensuring critical background jobs and cron tasks are running correctly. Monitoring the availability of websites and APIs. Automatically reflecting the status of monitored services on a public page.

✅ Best For

  • Engineering teams that need reliable monitoring for their scheduled tasks.
  • Developers who want a status page that is tightly coupled with their monitoring setup.

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Non-technical users who need a simple, manually updated status page.

🏆 Alternatives

Healthchecks.io UptimeRobot Better Stack

Offers far more advanced and reliable cron job monitoring than general-purpose uptime monitors.

💻 Platforms

Web API

🔌 Integrations

Slack PagerDuty Opsgenie Microsoft Teams Discord Webhook

🛟 Support Options

  • ✓ Email Support
  • ✓ Dedicated Support (Business tier)

🔒 Compliance & Security

✓ SOC 2 ✓ GDPR ✓ SSO ✓ SOC 2 Type II

💰 Pricing

$2.00/mo
Free Tier Available

✓ 14-day free trial

Free tier: 5 monitors, basic features.

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