Cron Job Monitoring
Heartbeat monitoring that catches silent failures
Track scheduled jobs and workers with heartbeats. Get alerted when a run is late, fails, or never finishes.
Heartbeats
Simple endpoints your jobs ping. If they don't, you're alerted immediately.
Runtime windows
Set expected intervals and durations; catch late or stuck runs automatically.
Full visibility
History, payloads, and notifications to keep data teams and engineers confident.
Why Monitor Cron Jobs?
Cron jobs and scheduled tasks are critical to many applications—data processing, backups, report generation, and cleanup tasks. When they fail silently, you might not notice until it's too late.
A missed backup job could mean data loss. A failed data sync could break integrations. A stuck job could consume resources indefinitely. These failures often go unnoticed until they cause major problems.
Traditional monitoring tools can't detect when a scheduled job doesn't run. Heartbeat monitoring solves this by requiring jobs to "check in" when they execute.
Key Benefits
Heartbeat monitoring
Your cron jobs ping our endpoint when they run. If a heartbeat is missed, you're alerted immediately.
Runtime tracking
Set expected run intervals and durations. Get alerts if jobs run late, take too long, or never complete.
Execution history
View complete history of all job executions with timestamps, durations, and success/failure status.
Smart alerts
Receive notifications only when jobs fail or miss their scheduled window—no false positives.
How Cron Job Monitoring Works
Add a simple HTTP request to your cron job or scheduled task. When the job runs, it pings Uptimecheck's heartbeat endpoint. We record the execution time and verify it happened within the expected window.
If a heartbeat is missed (the job didn't run), arrives late, or takes longer than expected, we immediately send alerts to your configured notification channels.
You can view the complete execution history in your dashboard, including timestamps, durations, and any errors. This gives you full visibility into your scheduled tasks.