About WatchCron

We keep an eye on your infrastructure so you don't have to.

WatchCron is a monitoring service. We watch your cron jobs, servers, certificates, and domains — and let you know when something needs attention. That's the whole idea.

The project grew out of our own work on web applications. We needed a tool that would tell us when a scheduled task stopped running or a certificate was about to expire. The options we found were either too complex for what we needed or didn't cover scheduled tasks at all. So we built our own.

What we actually do

WatchCron monitors cron jobs, uptime, open ports, SSL certificates, domain expiration, and blocklists. We also run status pages and Cloud Cron — a service that calls your webhooks on a schedule.

When something goes wrong or is about to expire, we send you a notification. Slack, Telegram, email, webhooks — pick what works for you. Setup takes about a minute per check. No agents to install, no config files to manage.

The team

WatchCron was founded by Vitalii Holben, a developer who spent years building and maintaining web applications before deciding that monitoring shouldn't require a dedicated ops person.

The rest of the team is small on purpose. A few developers who crossed paths on a project years back and kept working together since. We'd all dealt with the same headaches: silent failures, alert fatigue from noisy tools, dashboards nobody opens. When Vitalii pitched the idea, the answer was pretty quick.

We don't have a sales team or a marketing department. The product does the talking. If monitoring works well, you barely think about it. That's the goal.

How we work

We ship often, listen to what users tell us, and try not to overcomplicate things. Every feature we add goes through the same filter: would this have prevented a real incident? If the answer is "maybe, but it'd look good on the features page," it doesn't make it in.

Pricing is public, plans are straightforward, and there's a free tier that actually works for small projects. No trials that expire, no "contact sales" buttons hiding the real price.

If you've got questions or ideas, we read every message that comes in. Seriously.