mesos/chronos
Fault tolerant job scheduler for Mesos which handles dependencies and ISO8601 based schedules observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4949
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1526
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
4376 stars · 519 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Chronos is a distributed, fault-tolerant job scheduler that runs on Apache Mesos as a replacement for cron. It supports ISO8601 repeating interval schedules, dependency-based job chains, Docker containers, and provides a web UI with job stats and history.
Use cases
- schedule recurring jobs across a Mesos cluster instead of cron
- run jobs with dependencies where a job triggers after its parents complete
- schedule batch workloads like Hadoop or EMR jobs on Mesos
- run scheduled jobs inside Docker containers
- get fault-tolerant leader/follower scheduling with retries and job history
When to choose
- you already run Apache Mesos or DC/OS and need cron-like scheduling
- you need dependency chains between scheduled jobs
- you need fault tolerance, retries, and job stats for scheduled workloads
When to avoid
- you run Kubernetes instead of Mesos - use Kubernetes CronJobs or Argo Workflows
- you need a simple single-host cron replacement
- you need an actively developed scheduler - the project has seen little recent activity
Facets
service · maturity maintenance
scheduling workflow-automation deployment microservices big-data self-hosted jvm mesos-framework cron-replacement job-scheduler iso8601 distributed-scheduler scala docker-support zookeeper devops automation linux docker
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/mesos/chronos · fetched 2026-08-28 · 4393f070da57
- homepage: http://mesos.github.io/chronos/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4d53934d6c3a
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| mesos/chronos | main | 23 |
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