Crontinel
Crontinel is a background job outcome monitoring service that alerts engineering teams when scheduled tasks or cron jobs complete without processing any work.
About Crontinel
Crontinel monitors scheduled tasks and queue workers by evaluating business outcomes alongside process execution states. Traditional cron monitoring services only verify whether a script ran on schedule and returned an exit code of zero. In contrast, Crontinel accepts JSON execution receipts that report both the process exit code and custom business metrics, such as the number of records processed. When a batch billing or report job finishes cleanly with zero records processed against expectations, the system flags the run as an incident rather than a silent success.
Integration relies on a standardized HTTP ingest payload that developers can dispatch from any runtime environment without proprietary language dependencies. Engineers can send check-in receipts via basic curl requests, Node.js scripts, Python background routines, Sidekiq jobs in Ruby, or scheduled GitHub Actions workflows. For PHP codebases, an optional Laravel Composer package automatically hooks into the native task scheduler to track queue depth trends, supervisor worker crashes, and Horizon process freshness without manual check-in wrapping.
Incident management focuses on deterministic delivery and diagnostic visibility. When an outcome check fails or a scheduled job stops reporting entirely, Crontinel dispatches transactional email alerts containing the exact metric failure details. Once a subsequent scheduled execution runs successfully and meets the defined threshold, the open incident resolves automatically. An integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) server also enables development tools like Cursor and Claude Code to query active job health and review execution histories directly inside local developer environments.
The platform offers a free tier that supports one application, five active monitors, and seven days of event history without requiring payment information during onboarding. Paid subscription tiers covering expanded retention limits and higher application allowances are currently undergoing checkout review prior to general availability.
Works with
Features
- Dedicated Laravel package monitoring scheduled console commands, queue depth backpressure, and Horizon workers
- Horizon queue and worker alerts
- Automated incident alerting via transactional email with automatic issue resolution on subsequent passing runs
- Independent evaluation of process exit codes and business metrics like processed record counts
Use Cases
- Catching nightly invoice jobs that exit with code 0 but process zero billing records due to database query errors
- Monitor queues, workers, and backups
- Tracking scheduled GitHub Actions workflows to alert developers when cron automation silently halts
- Verifying third-party webhook ingest pipelines to catch delivery failures and abnormal retry traffic spikes
Verified facts
Checked by the StackLedge team.
FAQ
What happens if an HTTP check-in receipt omits business metrics entirely?
Crontinel treats a missing metric count as an unhealthy execution. If a monitoring rule requires an outcome check and the incoming payload fails to supply the expected metric key, the platform flags the run and opens an incident.
What limits apply to the free tier account?
The free plan permits monitoring for one application, up to five individual monitors, and retains seven days of execution logs and event history at no cost without credit card details.
Does Crontinel capture the full console output or database payload of monitored jobs?
The service only ingests the specific JSON receipt payload, timestamps, status values, and optional metrics sent by the caller. It does not inspect underlying database contents or queued job message bodies.
What third-party infrastructure hosts Crontinel services and databases?
Core web applications and primary databases run on Railway infrastructure, while global routing and optional automated investigation tooling operate on Cloudflare and Cloudflare Workers AI.
How does the Model Context Protocol integration assist developer workflows?
The MCP server exposes read-only endpoints allowing AI assistants in IDEs to retrieve failed job incident details, inspect previous run metrics, and evaluate actual records processed directly in chat.
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