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
- 20 checks, 1-minute resolution, full event history.
- Email alerts on every check, plus optional Slack / Discord / generic webhook per check.
- Start / success / fail signals so you can time runs and fail fast.
- Zero-signup instant checks: paste an email, get a ping URL, claim it into an account later.
- No credit card, no trial countdown.
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.