Cronitor
Cronitor is a comprehensive monitoring platform designed specifically for developers and operations teams to ensure the reliability and performance of their applications, websites, APIs, and background jobs. With Cronitor, users can monitor the status, metrics, and logs from cron jobs and background tasks, receive instant alerts for failures or missed runs, and gain deep visibility into their systems.
- Cron Job Monitoring: Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job. Receive automatic alerts when jobs fail or do not start as expected. Integrates easily with SDKs and APIs for seamless setup.
- Uptime and Performance Checks: Monitor websites and APIs from over 12 global locations. Set up simple uptime checks or advanced tests with custom assertions to detect downtime and performance issues quickly.
- Heartbeat Monitoring: Keep a constant pulse on the health of your infrastructure by collecting heartbeats from user activity, system events, and more. Aggregate key metrics and receive instant alerts for anomalies.
- Status Pages: Build public or internal status pages to communicate service reliability and incidents to customers and internal teams, reducing support inquiries and building trust.
- Analytics and Real User Monitoring: Measure website traffic, errors, and performance in real time. Use real-user data to improve site performance and deliver an exceptional end-user experience.
- Integrations and Alerts: Connect with over 12 integrations to alert the right person, on the right channel, with detailed information whenever issues arise.
Cronitor is trusted by over 70,000 developers worldwide and is designed to help teams find problems fast, prevent silent failures, and maintain high standards of reliability. Its lightweight, privacy-friendly analytics and flexible monitoring options make it an essential tool for modern development and operations teams.
Included in the Free Tier
- Access to 5 monitors
- Email and Slack alerts included
- Basic status page included
- 5-minute check frequency for monitors
- Cron, heartbeat, website, and API monitoring included
- 1 basic status page included
- 1 dashboard user included
- Instant alerts via email, Slack, Telegram, Discord, and Teams
- Webhooks included for alerting
- Multiple environments supported
- Scheduled email reports included
- Real User Monitoring: first 100,000 events free
- No SMS alerts included
- No premium integrations (PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Splunk)
- No branded or private status pages
- No team management or user roles
- No SAML Single Sign On (SSO)
- No synthetic browser checks
Visit the Cronitor Pricing Page for more information on its free tier offering.