Cron Doctor · configuration analysis

Crontab validator

Review the full job line. Schedule fields can be correct while an unconditional success heartbeat hides a command failure.

Open Cron Doctor

What you can check

  • Keep the job and its relevant environment assignments together.
  • Inspect supported command and heartbeat placement patterns.
  • See source evidence and recommended actions for each finding.

What remains unknown

Paste one intended job at a time. Static analysis cannot establish shell runtime, file permissions, installed tools, or actual completion.

Synthetic example

CRON_TZ=America/New_York
0 2 * * * /opt/jobs/backup; curl -fsS https://api.pingcron.io/ping/example

Your configuration is sent to PingCron for analysis. It is not saved and is never executed. A static report does not establish runtime health.

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