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Dev tools · May 11, 2015

Dead Man's Snitch

Monitor Cron Jobs and Windows Scheduled Tasks with ease.

Dead Man's Snitch launched on May 11, 2015 with 76 votes, #721 of 3,670 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

Know when and why your cron jobs fail with our easy to setup yet powerful monitoring tools. Quickly access the job's logs to get problems solved faster. Fits into your existing workflows with Slack, PagerDuty, and VictorOps integrations.

Dead Man’s Snitch is a cron job monitoring tool that keeps an eye on your periodic processes and notifies you when something doesn’t happen. Daily backups, monthly emails, or cron jobs you need to monitor? Dead Man’s Snitch has you covered.

Have trouble knowing if your scheduled tasks actually ran? If you have daily backups, monthly emails, or hourly cron jobs you need to monitor then Dead Man’s Snitch is for you. You can monitor for cron, Heroku Scheduler, or any scheduled task. If they don't execute when they should, Dead Man's Snitch alerts you. Many of us have been bit by a backup failing or a monthly email not sending; Dead Man’s Snitch solves that problem. Creating a snitch is easy. Give it a name, choose your interval, and tell us who we should alert for each job. Dead Man’s Snitch gives you a special URL for each job you want monitored. Use curl or your browser to make a request to this URL to start snitching. $…from deadmanssnitch.com

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