Know the instant a cron job stops running
A failed cron job is invisible until something downstream breaks. PingInsight's inbound heartbeat monitoring expects a ping from your job on schedule and alerts you the moment it misses — a dead man's switch for backups, ETL, billing runs, and any scheduled work.
Silent failures
Jobs fail quietly — a crashed worker, a missed schedule, a hung process. Heartbeat checks turn “no news” into an actual alert.
One place for jobs and services
Monitor heartbeats alongside your HTTP/API, TCP, DNS, and SSL checks, so background jobs live in the same dashboard as everything else.
Proof of when it stopped
Exact-second records show precisely when a job last checked in and when it recovered — useful for backups and compliance.
- ✓Inbound heartbeat endpoints your job pings on schedule
- ✓Alerts on a missed check-in, with recovery notices
- ✓Exact-second timelines for every miss
- ✓Email alerts today; more channels on the roadmap
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PingInsight for cron & scheduled jobs
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