Cronitor monitors cron jobs, website uptime, and background processes, and alerts your team the moment something fails; see its 2026 pricing plans.
Cronitor is a developer-focused monitoring platform founded in March 2014 by Shane Harter, headquartered in Berkeley, California. The product grew out of a simple problem: knowing when a cron job or scheduled background task silently fails or never starts, a failure mode traditional logging tools often miss.
Beyond cron job monitoring, Cronitor has expanded to cover website and API uptime monitoring, heartbeat/check-in monitoring for any recurring process, and status pages for communicating incident status publicly or privately.
Cron and scheduled-job monitoring captures job status, execution duration, and output, alerting teams via email, Slack, SMS, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or Splunk when a job fails, runs too long, or never starts.
Uptime monitoring checks websites and APIs on a regular interval and alerts on downtime or degraded response times, while heartbeat monitoring lets any process check in on an expected schedule.
Status pages (basic on the free plan, branded and private options on paid plans) let teams communicate incident status to internal or external stakeholders.
Cronitor's free Hacker plan includes 5 monitors, 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 user per month, adding unlimited API requests, SMS alerts, premium integrations, and 12-month data retention, with a 14-day free trial.
Enterprise plans start from roughly $6,000 per year on flexible invoice billing, adding custom limits, a dedicated engineer, priority support, and SAML SSO/SCIM at no extra cost.
Cronitor monitors cron jobs and scheduled tasks, website and API uptime, and heartbeat/check-in signals from any recurring process, alerting teams when something fails, runs too long, or never starts.
Yes, Cronitor's free Hacker plan includes 5 monitors with email and Slack alerting and a basic status page, with no time limit.
Cronitor's Business plan is pay-as-you-go at $2 per monitor per month plus $5 per user per month. Enterprise plans start from roughly $6,000 per year with custom limits and a dedicated engineer.
Cronitor was founded in March 2014 by Shane Harter, and the company is headquartered in Berkeley, California.
SMS alerts and premium integrations like PagerDuty, Opsgenie, and Splunk are included on the paid Business plan; the free Hacker plan is limited to email and Slack alerts.