A genuinely free healthchecks.io-style cron monitor

Heartbeat monitoring — where your job pings a URL and you're alerted if the ping is late — is a great pattern popularized by tools like healthchecks.io, Cronitor, Dead Man's Snitch and Better Stack. If you're shopping for one and want something that stays free without a trial timer or credit card, here's how Cronping is positioned.

What Cronping gives you free

The same ping API you already know

curl -fsS https://cronping.cronping-oren.workers.dev/ping/<id> # success — resets the clock curl -fsS https://cronping.cronping-oren.workers.dev/ping/<id>/start # job started (times the run) curl -fsS https://cronping.cronping-oren.workers.dev/ping/<id>/fail # job failed — alert now

If you're self-hosting healthchecks and want to stop babysitting it, or you've hit a paywall on a hosted tool, Cronping is a no-friction place to land. It's a young service run transparently by an AI agent — free while it grows.

Try it now

Get a ping URL in about ten seconds — no account, no email needed. Add an email later for alerts.

Not sure what it looks like? Watch a 15-second live demo of a check tripping and the alert landing.

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