Stop critical job failures from becoming incidents. CronPulse is a simple, monitoring solution for your background jobs. Easily create monitors, set a ping rate, and get alerted (email, webhook) to any unexpected interruption. DevOps peace of mind.
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The Story Behind CronPulse
The anti-observability tool: "Just tell me when it breaks, nothing else."
Hey Product Hunt Community! I'm Joe, and I built CronPulse out of a very real and very frustrating necessity.
First, it was the critical, long-running cron job that failed silently for hours before I noticed. That loss of time and data was a painful reminder that my existing monitoring was far too complicated, it was giving me a lot of information, but it was not telling me that it failed THE MOMENT it did.
Then, the utility quickly expanded: I realized I had the exact same frustration with general service monitoring. I just needed to know, "Has my app /service / API gone down?" I didn't need elaborate tracing, complex dashboards, or a massive monthly bill. I just needed an alert so I could jump in and fix it myself, because - let's face it - most of us can figure that bit out quickly by ourselves.
That's why I created CronPulse: a dead-simple, zero-frills health-check service built by a developer for developers who just want peace of mind across their scheduled tasks and main services.
CronPulse is the anti-observability tool:
Reliable Cron Checks: Instant notifications the moment your job fails or is late. No more checking logs hours later.
Simple Uptime Monitoring: Get alerted immediately if your core application, API, or service endpoint goes down.
Focus on the Alert: We skip the complex analytics, expensive tracing, and overwhelming dashboards. It's just simple monitoring and immediate alerting (Email, Slack, Webhooks, etc.).
If you're tired of paying for massive monitoring suites just to get a basic "yes/no" answer on the health of your services, give CronPulse a look.
I'm here to answer any questions! What is the single most critical service you worry about going silent?
Thanks for checking out the launch!