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Dev tools · April 2, 2026

DeadManCheck — Cron Job Monitoring

Cron job monitoring that catches slow jobs too

What it does

DeadManCheck monitors your cron jobs and scheduled tasks. Get alerted when jobs go silent — or when they run but take suspiciously long. Duration anomaly detection catches the failures that ping-only monitors miss. Free tier, no card required.

Does the same job

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