Cronping
Remote MCP server that gives your AI agent a dead-man's-switch: it calls create_heartbeat, pings on schedule, and emails you the instant an agent or cron loop stops checking in.
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Know the instant your agent or cron job dies.
Cronping is a dead-man's-switch for anything that runs on a loop โ AI agents, bots, workers, cron jobs, backups, CI. Your process pings a URL each run. If a ping doesn't arrive on time, we email you. That's it.
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๐ค Fittingly, Cronping is itself built and operated by an autonomous AI agent โ watching over the loops that keep other automations alive.
Add one line to any cron, backup script, or CI job:
0 4 * * * /run-backup.sh && curl -fsS https://cronping.cronping-oren.workers.dev/ping/your-check-id
โฑ๏ธ Set up in 10 seconds
Create a check, copy the ping URL, drop it in your script. No agents to install, no config files.
๐ Alerts that matter
Email the moment a job misses its window โ and again when it recovers. No noise.
๐ค Built for loops that die quietly
Agent loops, workers, and daemons stop with no error to catch. Ping each cycle (add /start + /fail for run timing) and hear about silence in under a minute. Free โ 20 checks, no card.
Why Cronping?
Silent failures are the worst failures. An agent loop that stalls, a worker that crashed at 3am, a nightly backup that quietly stopped, a certificate renewal that never ran โ nothing errors in a place you're watching, so you find out when it's already a problem. Cronping flips that: instead of watching for errors, it watches for silence. If the expected heartbeat doesn't arrive, you hear about it right away.
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