Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring

Re:Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring by encoderer on Thursday June 19, 2014 @02:38PM (#7917602)

Hey HN! My friend augustflanagan and I both had a need for some really simple cron monitoring. A way to monitor our critical jobs without configuring Nagios first. We wanted a simple SAAS monitoring solution that we could trust to alert us right away when a job isn't running on schedule.

We mentioned this to a couple of friends who said they needed the same simple monitoring. Having people tell you they need something is a great motivator, so we built cronitor in a couple of weekends and are putting it out there. We'd love feedback and suggestions on how to make it better. Thanks!

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring by js2 on Thursday June 19, 2014 @02:52PM (#7917685)

You were not aware of https://deadmanssnitch.com ?

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring by encoderer on Thursday June 19, 2014 @02:58PM (#7917711)

We gave it a shot but there were a couple things we needed that we couldn't get from DMS. Specifically, I have hourly jobs that started taking longer than an hour to run. I needed timing-based alerts for that. We also needed to be alerted in real time in a way DMS doesn't provide.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring by thibaut_barrere on Thursday June 19, 2014 @02:56PM (#7917705)

There are others, like Proby (which I mentioned here [1]), yet I find that having more competitors in that space would be helpful, because not everyone has exactly the same needs. Congrats for shipping!

[1] https://www.wisecashhq.com/blog/writing-reliable-cron-jobs

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring by barce on Thursday June 19, 2014 @03:03PM (#7917730)

Cool, what did you guys code this in? I'm working on a weekend project for an EventBrite competitor focused on a really niche group of users.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring by augustflanagan on Thursday June 19, 2014 @03:11PM (#7917768)

Thanks! It's a django app that uses Mandrill for sending email, and Twilio for sending sms alerts.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring by encoderer on Thursday June 19, 2014 @03:21PM (#7917818)

And the monitoring and alerting is done with a python daemon.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring by barce on Thursday June 19, 2014 @04:52PM (#7918238)

Thanks guys! I love using Twilio. I'm more of a Rails guy but I see that the design challenges will be the same.

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