I Built a Cron Job Monitoring API in a Weekend

Every developer has at least one cron job running somewhere — backups, data processing, sending reports. And every developer has had the experience of discovering a cron job stopped running days (or weeks) ago. The issue: cron doesn't notify you about failures by default. Your 0 2 * * * /opt/backup.sh could silently fail for a month before someone notices. The Solution I built CronPing , a lightweight API for monitoring cron jobs: Sign up — get an API key Create a monitor — specify the expected