--- title: Cron Job Monitoring Made Simple | daily.dev description: A SaaS product offers simple monitoring for cron jobs, background tasks, and scheduled pipelines. Integration requires no agents or SDKs, just adding a curl... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cron-job-monitoring-made-simple-ptw41it7b twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cron Job Monitoring Made Simple | daily.dev og:description: A SaaS product offers simple monitoring for cron jobs, background tasks, and scheduled pipelines. Integration requires no agents or SDKs, just adding a curl... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cron-job-monitoring-made-simple-ptw41it7b og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pTW41IT7b.png og:image:alt: Cron Job Monitoring Made Simple og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cron Job Monitoring Made Simple **[ElixirStatus](https://daily.dev/sources/elixirstatus)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A SaaS product offers simple monitoring for cron jobs, background tasks, and scheduled pipelines. Integration requires no agents or SDKs, just adding a curl ping command to the end of a cron job; if the job doesn't check in on time, an alert email is sent within seconds. Features include recovery notifications, failure signal endpoints, duration tracking, and a real-time dashboard. Pricing tiers range from a free plan with 20 monitors to paid Pro and Business plans with more monitors, integrations, SMS alerts, and longer history retention. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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