Free Cron Job Monitor · Coming Soon

Your cron jobs are probably broken right now. You just don't know it yet.

CronPulse sends you an email the moment a scheduled job misses its window, before your backups fail, your emails stop sending, or your data goes stale.

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Free · No credit card · First 3 monitors, no account needed

Set up heartbeat monitoring in 60 seconds

Create a monitor
Give your monitor a name and set the expected interval (hourly, daily, weekly, or a custom cron expression). Add a grace period so you're not alerted for a job that's 30 seconds late.
2
Add one line to your script
Copy the generated ping URL and add it to the end of your cron job. Works with curl, wget, fetch, requests: anything that can make an HTTP GET or POST.
bash
```
curl -s https://cronpulse.devencyclopedia.com/ping/your-monitor-id
```
Get alerted when it stops
If the ping doesn't arrive within the expected window, you get an email alert immediately. No dashboard to check, no logs to scan: you find out before your users do.

Zeeshan Tofiq

Full Stack Developer

What developers monitor with CronPulse

Built for solo developers and small teams running scheduled tasks on any stack: Next.js, Node.js, Python, Go, or bare shell scripts.

Nightly database backups
Daily newsletter digests
Data sync jobs from external APIs
ETL pipelines that clean or aggregate data
CI/CD cleanup and maintenance jobs
Scheduled report generation
Recurring payment or billing jobs
Cache warm-up tasks

Everything you need to monitor scheduled tasks. Nothing you don't.

Email alerts for missed cron jobs

Instant email notifications the moment a scheduled task misses its window.

Grace period per monitor

Set a buffer before an alert fires. A job that's 30 seconds late is fine. One that's 30 minutes late is not.

GET and POST support

The ping URL accepts both GET and POST, so it works with curl, fetch, requests, and any HTTP client.

No account for first 3 monitors

Create monitors without signing up. Grab a URL and start. Add your email address when you're ready for alerts.

How CronPulse compares to other cron job monitoring tools

The cron monitoring space has good options. Here's where CronPulse fits.

	CronPulse	Healthchecks.io	Cronitor	cron-job.org
Free tier	3 monitors, no account	20 monitors	1 monitor	Scheduler only
Setup	One curl command	Email signup required	Signup required	N/A
Purpose	Job monitoring	Job monitoring	Monitoring + scheduling	Scheduling only
Open source	No	Yes	No	No

Frequently Asked Questions

Is CronPulse free to use?

Yes. Create your first 3 monitors without an account and without a credit card. A paid tier for unlimited monitors, Slack alerts, and team collaboration is planned for a future release.

How does heartbeat monitoring work?

Job completes: your script sends a GET or POST request to your monitor's unique ping URL.
Ping arrives: CronPulse resets the alert timer and marks the job healthy.
No ping received: if the ping doesn't arrive within the interval plus grace period, you get an email alert.

bash

# Add to the end of your cron script
curl -s https://cronpulse.devencyclopedia.com/ping/your-monitor-id

How is CronPulse different from cron-job.org?

	CronPulse	cron-job.org
Purpose	Monitors that your job completed	Schedules and triggers your job
Alerts on failure?	Yes	No
Use together?	Yes, use both	Yes, use both

Use cron-job.org to trigger tasks and CronPulse to verify they completed successfully.

Which languages and platforms does CronPulse support?

Any language or platform that can make an HTTP request:

Shell scripts with curl or wget
Python (requests), Node.js (fetch), Ruby, Go
GitHub Actions (curl step)
Kubernetes CronJobs
Any serverless function or scheduled task

How is CronPulse different from Healthchecks.io?

	CronPulse	Healthchecks.io
Free tier	3 monitors, no account	20 monitors, account required
Setup time	Under 60 seconds	A few minutes (email signup)
Open source?	No	Yes
Best for	Zero-friction start	More configuration options

How quickly will I be notified of a missed cron job?

As soon as the grace period expires. For example, if your job is expected every hour with a 15-minute grace period, you get an email alert 1 hour and 15 minutes after the last successful ping.

Set up heartbeat monitoring in 60 seconds

Create a monitor

Give your monitor a name and set the expected interval (hourly, daily, weekly, or a custom cron expression). Add a grace period so you're not alerted for a job that's 30 seconds late.

Add one line to your script

Copy the generated ping URL and add it to the end of your cron job. Works with curl, wget, fetch, requests: anything that can make an HTTP GET or POST.

bash

curl -s https://cronpulse.devencyclopedia.com/ping/your-monitor-id

Get alerted when it stops

If the ping doesn't arrive within the expected window, you get an email alert immediately. No dashboard to check, no logs to scan: you find out before your users do.

What developers monitor with CronPulse

Built for solo developers and small teams running scheduled tasks on any stack: Next.js, Node.js, Python, Go, or bare shell scripts.

Nightly database backups

Daily newsletter digests

Data sync jobs from external APIs

ETL pipelines that clean or aggregate data

CI/CD cleanup and maintenance jobs

Scheduled report generation

Recurring payment or billing jobs

Cache warm-up tasks

Everything you need to monitor scheduled tasks. Nothing you don't.

Email alerts for missed cron jobs

Instant email notifications the moment a scheduled task misses its window.

Grace period per monitor

Set a buffer before an alert fires. A job that's 30 seconds late is fine. One that's 30 minutes late is not.

GET and POST support

The ping URL accepts both GET and POST, so it works with curl, fetch, requests, and any HTTP client.

No account for first 3 monitors

Create monitors without signing up. Grab a URL and start. Add your email address when you're ready for alerts.

How CronPulse compares to other cron job monitoring tools

The cron monitoring space has good options. Here's where CronPulse fits.

	CronPulse	Healthchecks.io	Cronitor	cron-job.org
Free tier	3 monitors, no account	20 monitors	1 monitor	Scheduler only
Setup	One curl command	Email signup required	Signup required	N/A
Purpose	Job monitoring	Job monitoring	Monitoring + scheduling	Scheduling only
Open source	No	Yes	No	No

Frequently Asked Questions

Is CronPulse free to use?

Yes. Create your first 3 monitors without an account and without a credit card. A paid tier for unlimited monitors, Slack alerts, and team collaboration is planned for a future release.

How does heartbeat monitoring work?

Job completes: your script sends a GET or POST request to your monitor's unique ping URL.
Ping arrives: CronPulse resets the alert timer and marks the job healthy.
No ping received: if the ping doesn't arrive within the interval plus grace period, you get an email alert.

bash

# Add to the end of your cron script
curl -s https://cronpulse.devencyclopedia.com/ping/your-monitor-id

How is CronPulse different from cron-job.org?

	CronPulse	cron-job.org
Purpose	Monitors that your job completed	Schedules and triggers your job
Alerts on failure?	Yes	No
Use together?	Yes, use both	Yes, use both

Use cron-job.org to trigger tasks and CronPulse to verify they completed successfully.

Which languages and platforms does CronPulse support?

Any language or platform that can make an HTTP request:

Shell scripts with curl or wget
Python (requests), Node.js (fetch), Ruby, Go
GitHub Actions (curl step)
Kubernetes CronJobs
Any serverless function or scheduled task

How is CronPulse different from Healthchecks.io?

	CronPulse	Healthchecks.io
Free tier	3 monitors, no account	20 monitors, account required
Setup time	Under 60 seconds	A few minutes (email signup)
Open source?	No	Yes
Best for	Zero-friction start	More configuration options

How quickly will I be notified of a missed cron job?

As soon as the grace period expires. For example, if your job is expected every hour with a 15-minute grace period, you get an email alert 1 hour and 15 minutes after the last successful ping.