iwannay/jiacrontab

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Jiacrontab is a self-hosted, web-based scheduled task management tool written in Go, consisting of an admin web UI (jiacrontab_admin) and a scheduler daemon (jiacrontabd) communicating over RPC. It supports cron jobs with concurrency limits, timeouts, cross-server script dependencies, failure notifications, and long-running daemon process supervision.

Use cases

• manage cron jobs through a web interface
• schedule scripts across multiple servers with dependencies
• restart long-running daemon scripts automatically if they exit
• get notified when a scheduled script fails
• limit concurrent executions of the same job
• replace system crontab with a centralized task scheduler

When to choose

• you need a web UI to manage scheduled jobs on multiple machines
• you want job dependencies, timeouts, and concurrency control beyond plain crontab
• you need daemon process supervision for resident scripts
• you prefer a lightweight self-hosted scheduler in Go

When to avoid

• you need to push jobs to tens of thousands of instances - the author recommends Jiascheduler instead
• you only need simple single-machine cron - system crontab is simpler
• you require a fully distributed, HA scheduler like Airflow or Temporal

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scheduling workflow-automation monitoring alerting web-framework self-hosted developer-tools self-hosted go cron job-scheduler task-management daemon distributed-tasks web-ui rpc devops automation linux macos docker web-server

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