{% block title %}Documentation - {% site_name %}{% endblock %}
{% block description %}
<metaname="description"content="Monitor any service that can make a HTTP request or send an email: cron jobs, Bash scripts, Python, Ruby, Node, PHP, JS, ...">
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{% block keywords %}
<metaname="keywords"content="healthchecks, crontab monitoring, python health check, bash health check, cron monitoring, cron tutorial, cron howto, api health check, open source">
<metaname="description"content="Monitoring for your nightly backups, weekly reports, cron jobs and background tasks. Receive alerts when your tasks don't run on time.">
{% endblock %}
{% block containers %}
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<h1id="pitch">Cron Monitoring. Get Notified When Your Cron Jobs Fail.</h1>
<h1id="pitch">
Monitoring for your nightly backups,
weekly reports, cron jobs and background tasks.</h1>
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<pid="pitch-text">Make a HTTP GET request to this address from your cron job, daemon, script or long running task.
<strong>When this address is not requested for a set time period, you will get alerted.</strong> Below are snippets that are ready to be copy/pasted into your own scripts.</p>
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Make HTTP requests to the Ping URL at regular intervals.
<strong>
When the URL is not pinged on time,
{% site_name %} will send you an alert.
</strong>
You can monitor any service that can make HTTP requests
or send emails.
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<h2id="pitch-subtitle">Here's a unique ping address for you:</h2>
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{% site_name %} creates unique Ping URLs like this one:
<metaname="description"content="With the Free plan, you can monitor up to 20 services for free. Paid plans lift the limits significantly and are reasonably priced. Special offer for open source projects.">
{% endblock %}
{% block keywords %}
<metaname="keywords"content="healthchecks, cronitor alternative, dead man's snitch alternative, monitor cron jobs free, free cron monitoring, free cron job, free health checks">