What is Crontiq and how does it monitor cron jobs?

Crontiq pings JSON from your scripts, auto-extracts metrics, tracks trends, alerts on anomalies beyond exit code 0—all free for 20 monitors.

How does Crontiq detect cron job failures that exit 0?

Uses moving average + 2 std devs on your metrics (rows, duration, etc.); sudden drops like 16.8M to 0 trigger instant alerts.

Yes—unlimited pings, no config, just one curl at script end. Badges for READMEs included.

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