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Quick Answer

A cron job monitor records every scheduled-run attempt, captures the response, validates it against an expected outcome, and alerts you when consecutive runs fail. Requex.me does all of this free — schedule the job, enable logging, and watch each fire in real time.

Free Cron Job Monitor With Real-Time Logs

Schedule HTTP cron jobs, watch every fire in real time, and get alerted the moment one starts failing. Logs persist for auditing — no quotas, no per-event billing.

Last updated: May 2026 • 5 min read

What a Cron Job Monitor Actually Tells You

A scheduler runs your job. A monitor proves it ran, captures what happened, and lets you act on failures. The four signals that matter:

  • Did it fire? — last-run timestamp tells you if the scheduler is healthy.
  • Did it succeed? — status code + expected-status check tells you if the work was actually done.
  • What did it return? — captured response body lets you debug failures without re-running.
  • How long did it take? — duration in ms catches slow regressions before they become timeouts.

Requex captures all four for every fire and stores them indefinitely on your account.

Features Built Into the Monitor

Configurable retries

Set retry count and backoff seconds per job. Auto-pause after N consecutive failures so a broken endpoint doesn't burn quota.

Expected status / body match

Mark a run failed if response doesn't return HTTP 200 (or whatever you set) or doesn't contain the expected substring.

Notify-webhook

When a job hits its failure threshold, Requex POSTs to a URL of your choice — wire it into PagerDuty, Slack, Discord, or your own incident system.

Per-job timezone

IANA timezone (e.g. Asia/Kolkata) per job — no DST surprises.

How to Set Up a Monitored Cron in 60 Seconds

  1. Sign up (free) — your crons live under your account.
  2. New cron job — set name, cron expression (use the expression builder if helpful), target URL, method, headers, and body.
  3. Enable logging + set expected status (e.g. 200) — toggle on.
  4. Set retry / failure policy — retries: 3, backoff: 30s, auto-pause after: 10 consecutive failures.
  5. Add notify-webhook URL — paste a webhook from Slack / PagerDuty / a separate Requex inbox if you want to alert via a webhook receiver you already have.

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Monitor Your Cron Jobs Free

Live logs, validation, failure alerts. No caps.

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