Alternatives to Cronitor
A hosted monitoring service for cron jobs, background workers, websites and APIs, with failure alerts. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Cronitor
A hosted monitoring service for cron jobs, background workers, websites and APIs, with failure alerts.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Cronitor.
Dead Man's Snitch
A hosted monitoring service that alerts you when a cron job or scheduled task fails to run.
Dead Man's Snitch needs only a curl request at the end of a job and has mobile apps for push alerts, but it does not keep job output or check websites.
Better Stack Uptime
A hosted uptime monitor that checks websites, APIs, SSL certificates and domains and sends alerts.
Better Stack Uptime adds cron heartbeat monitoring alongside HTTP, SSL, DNS and Playwright browser checks, with a free plan limited to 3-minute intervals.
UptimeRobot
A hosted uptime monitoring service with 50 free monitors, alerts and public status pages.
UptimeRobot includes cron job monitors among its check types with 50 free monitors and public status pages, but it does not keep output from each run.
WebGazer
A hosted service for website, API, port and cron job monitoring with public status pages.
WebGazer offers heartbeat checks for scheduled jobs plus website, API and port monitoring with 50 free monitors, though free checks run every 5 minutes.
updown.io
A hosted website monitor that checks HTTP, TCP and ICMP endpoints, certificates and cron jobs.
updown.io includes cron job, certificate and domain expiry monitoring with usage-based pricing, but has no free tier mentioned.
Oh Dear
A hosted website health monitor covering uptime, SSL, DNS, cron jobs, broken links and performance.
Oh Dear adds cron checks to site crawling for broken links, uptime, SSL and DNS, with EU hosting, but has no permanent free plan.
Uptime.com
A hosted monitoring service for websites, APIs and cron jobs, with alerting and status pages.
Uptime.com is a paid business service covering website, API, cron job and real user monitoring, with built-in status pages and mobile apps for iPhone and Android.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Cronitor as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
TrackSSL
A hosted service that monitors SSL/TLS certificates and sends alerts before they expire or change.
Cronitor offers SSL checks from 12+ locations but focuses on cron jobs, workers and uptime, alerting through Slack, PagerDuty and email.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
cron-job.org
A free hosted scheduler that calls URLs on a schedule, from once a minute to yearly.
EasyCron
A hosted cron service that calls your URLs on a schedule and logs each run.
StatusCake
A hosted monitoring service for website uptime, page speed, SSL certificates, domains and servers.
Sentry
An error tracking and application performance monitoring service for developers, hosted or self-hosted.
PagerDuty
A hosted incident management and on-call platform that routes alerts to responders and automates response.
Statuspage
Atlassian's hosted service for publishing status pages and notifying users about incidents and maintenance.
