Cron jobs fail silently.
PingCron doesn't.

Cron job monitoring tracks your scheduled tasks and alerts you when they fail to run. Each job pings a unique URL on completion. If a ping is missed, you get notified instantly via email, Slack, Discord, or webhook. It prevents silent failures — like a database backup that stopped running 3 weeks ago without anyone noticing.

PingCron acts as a dead man's switch. Each monitor has a unique ping URL. Your cron job hits that URL every time it runs successfully. PingCron checks for missed pings every 30 seconds. If a ping doesn't arrive within your schedule plus a configurable grace period, it marks the job as down and sends you an alert.

Add a single curl command to the end of your script: curl -s https://api.pingcron.io/ping/your-slug. That's the entire integration. It works with bash, Python, Node.js, Go, PHP, Ruby, or any language that can make an HTTP request. GET, POST, and HEAD methods are all supported.

Email, Slack, Discord, and custom webhooks. You can configure multiple channels per monitor so your whole team gets notified when a job fails. Recovery alerts are sent automatically when a job starts pinging again.

Yes. The free plan includes 5 monitors, email alerts, Slack and Discord integration, and 7 days of uptime history. No credit card required. You can upgrade anytime if you need more monitors or team access.

Yes for Cronhub Monitoring users. Cronhub shut down on June 30, 2026, and PingCron uses the same heartbeat monitoring pattern: your existing job pings a unique URL and PingCron alerts you when that heartbeat is late or missing. PingCron does not execute remote HTTP schedules, so former Cronhub Scheduler users should run jobs in their scheduler of choice and use PingCron to monitor those runs.

Yes. On the Team plan and above, you can invite team members with admin or member roles. Admins can create monitors and manage settings. Members can view all monitors, uptime history, and status pages.

PingCron automatically sends a recovery alert when a previously-down monitor starts pinging again. You'll see both down and recovery events in your ping history, along with how long the job was down.