Cron monitoring

Cron monitoring for the jobs nobody watches

Backups, imports, invoices and ETL jobs fail silently. Upmonora heartbeat monitoring will alert you when a scheduled job does not check in.

Coming soon

Overview - Cron monitoring for the jobs nobody watches

Key capabilities of Cron monitoring

Ping URLs Soon

Each job gets a unique URL - call it with curl when the job finishes.

Grace periods Soon

Alert only when a ping is later than its schedule plus a grace period.

Run history Soon

See every check-in, missed run and duration.

Same incident engine Soon

Missed heartbeats open incidents and alerts exactly like website downtime.

How it works

Cron monitoring, step by step

  1. Create a heartbeat and copy its ping URL.
  2. Add `curl -fsS https://ping.upmonora.com/<token>` to the end of your job.
  3. If the ping doesn't arrive on schedule, Upmonora alerts you.
✦ Included with every monitor

AI insights explain what the numbers mean

Health scores, anomaly detection and plain-language incident summaries are built in - no extra setup, no extra cost.

How Upmonora AI works
Observed
7-day uptime 99.61%, 4 separate incidents.
Interpretation
Repeated short outages often point to resource limits or a crashing process.
FAQ

Cron monitoring questions

Is cron monitoring available today?
Not yet - it is on the roadmap. Create a free account and we will let you know when heartbeats launch.
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