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Monitoring for cron jobs, scheduled tasks, websites, and APIs

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  • Deployment Cloud Based
  • Starting price $2
  • Free trial Available
  • Best for Startups, SMEs, Enterprises

What is Cronitor?

Cronitor is a monitoring platform focused on cron jobs, scheduled tasks, and background processes, alongside website and API uptime checks. Built by Cronitor Inc, based in Berkeley, California, it tracks whether jobs run on schedule, captures logs and output automatically, and alerts teams when a job fails, runs slow, or never starts.

Pricing is usage based on the Business plan, charging per monitor and per dashboard user with a 14 day free trial, while a free Hacker plan covers 5 monitors with basic email and Slack alerts. An Enterprise plan starting around $6,000 per year adds custom features, a dedicated engineer, and flexible invoicing for larger teams.

Key Features of Cronitor

Cronitor lists 10 documented features, including Cron job and scheduled task monitoring, Automatic log capture correlated with job runs and Website, API, and uptime monitoring. The list below covers what the product does rather than how it is marketed.

  • Cron job and scheduled task monitoring
  • Automatic log capture correlated with job runs
  • Website, API, and uptime monitoring
  • Real time dashboards with 12 months of data retention
  • Custom alert thresholds, grace periods, and failure tolerance
  • CronitorCLI for adding monitoring to existing cron jobs
  • Auto-discovery on Linux, Kubernetes, and Windows
  • Integrations with GitHub Actions and Apache Airflow
  • Status pages
  • SDKs for Python, Node.js, Ruby, and PHP

Cronitor Pricing

Cronitor lists 2 plans, from $2 to $6,000.

Business

$2

per monitor/month

Usage based plan that adds $5 per month for each dashboard user, with unlimited API requests, 10 alert integrations and 12 month data retention.

Enterprise

$6,000

per year, starting price

Enterprise grade service and support with custom features and integrations.

Cronitor Specifications

Cronitor is available on web app. It offers an API, has a free trial and has a free plan.

Deployment
  • Cloud Based
Billing cycle
Monthly
Desktop
  • Web App
Languages
  • English
Built for
  • Startups
  • SMEs
  • Enterprises
Support
  • Email
  • Tickets
Integrations
Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, email, SMS, webhooks, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Apache Airflow
Public API
Yes
Free trial
Yes
Free plan
Yes
Runs in browser
Yes
Customisable
Yes
Website
cronitor.io

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Cronitor FAQs

Yes, the Hacker plan is free and includes 5 monitors with email and Slack alerts and a basic status page.

The Business plan is pay as you go at $2 per monitor per month plus $5 per month for each additional dashboard user, with a 14 day free trial.

Beyond cron jobs and scheduled tasks, Cronitor also monitors websites, APIs, and general uptime, with automatic log capture for every job run.

Yes, CronitorCLI lets you add monitoring to existing cron jobs quickly and includes a self-hosted dashboard for managing crontabs.

Cronitor Enterprise starts around $6,000 per year and adds custom features and integrations, a dedicated engineer, priority support, and flexible invoice billing.