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Overview
What Cronitor does
Cronitor monitors backend infrastructure for developers and operations teams, tracking cron jobs, background tasks, websites, and APIs across multiple global regions. The platform captures execution status, metrics, and logs, then delivers automatic alerts when issues occur—preventing the silent failures that plague background job orchestration. Users integrate monitoring by sending heartbeats from their jobs to Cronitor's ping endpoints, and the service detects when expected pings don't arrive. The platform serves over 70,000 developers across startups and enterprises, providing five core monitoring tools: cron job monitoring, website and API uptime checks, heartbeat monitoring for infrastructure health, website analytics combining traffic and errors, and hosted status pages for communicating incidents to customers.
What people use it for
- Monitoring scheduled cron jobs and background tasks
- Tracking website and API uptime with global checks
- Alerting teams when critical jobs fail to execute
- Communicating service status to customers
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Cronitor.
- Free tier limited to 5 monitors, limiting viability for small teams
- Pay-per-monitor pricing scales quickly with infrastructure size
- Requires integrating ping calls into existing jobs
- Limited to monitoring jobs that can send pings
- No built-in workflow orchestration or task scheduling
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Pricing
What Cronitor costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Hacker
Free
- 5 monitors
- Email and Slack alerts
- Basic status page
Business
$2 /monitor/month
- Unlimited monitors
- 30-second check frequency
- 10 alert integrations
- 12-month data retention
- Automatic email reports
- Volume-based discounts
Enterprise
$6,000 /yr
- Custom features and integrations
- 5-second check frequency
- Dedicated engineer
- Priority support
- Flexible invoice billing
Capabilities
Features
Cron job monitoring
Track execution status and metrics for scheduled tasks
Uptime and performance checks
Monitor websites and APIs from 12+ global regions
Heartbeat monitoring
Health checks for infrastructure and system events
Status pages
Public or internal pages to communicate service reliability
Real-user monitoring
Analytics combining traffic, errors, and performance data
Alert integrations
12+ channels including Slack, Gmail, PagerDuty, and SMS
Email reports
Automatic scheduled email reports across all plans
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Questions people ask
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How does Cronitor billing work for the Business plan?
Business plan costs $2 per monitor per month plus $5 per user per month, billed monthly based on actual usage.
SourceWhat is the difference between Hacker and Business plans?
Hacker plan ($0/month) includes 5 monitors and basic Slack/email alerts. Business plan ($2/monitor/month) offers unlimited monitors, 30-second checks, 10 integrations, 12-month retention, and email reports.
SourceDoes Cronitor offer a free trial?
Yes, Cronitor provides a 14-day free trial on the Business plan without requiring a credit card.
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- Company
- Cronitor
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