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DeadManCheck monitors your cron jobs and scheduled tasks. Get alerted when jobs go silent — or when they run but take suspiciously long. Duration anomaly detection catches the failures that ping-only monitors miss. Free tier, no card required.
DeadManCheck — Cron Job MonitoringCron job monitoring that catches slow jobs too
Kristian Vickersleft a comment
Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I built DeadManCheck after getting burned one too many times by cron jobs that silently failed — no error, no alert, just nothing. By the time I noticed, hours of data had been missed. Most monitoring tools tell you when something crashes. DeadManCheck tells you when something stops running which is a completely different problem. Two lines added to any cron job and you'll...
DeadManCheck — Cron Job MonitoringCron job monitoring that catches slow jobs too
Kristian Vickersleft a comment
Hey Product Hunt — I built DeadManCheck because I kept running into a monitoring blind spot. The standard dead man's switch pattern (ping a URL, get alerted if it goes quiet) is well solved. But in practice, most of my job failures weren't silent — the job ran, it pinged, it looked fine. It just took three times longer than normal. That's usually the first sign something is wrong: a slow query,...
DeadManCheck — Cron Job MonitoringCron job monitoring that catches slow jobs too