# jamesrwhite/minicron

🕰️ Monitor your cron jobs

Repository: https://github.com/jamesrwhite/minicron
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/minicron
Language: Ruby
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: ruby, cron, monitoring, ops, devops, infrastructure, automation, scheduler
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-05-16T17:14:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4594, "days_push": 1935, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2318, forks 149 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:36.961484+00:00)

## What it is
minicron is a self-hosted cron job monitoring system consisting of a CLI client that wraps command execution on your servers and a web UI server that displays output, status, and execution history. It alerts you via email, SMS (Twilio), PagerDuty, AWS SNS, or Slack when jobs fail or are missed.

## Use cases
- monitor my cron jobs from a web UI
- get alerted when a cron job fails or is missed
- see historical execution data for scheduled jobs
- watch cron job output in real time
- manage cron schedules through a GUI instead of crontab
- send cron failure notifications to Slack or PagerDuty

## When to choose
- you run jobs via cron on Linux/BSD/OSX servers and need visibility into whether they ran on schedule and succeeded
- you want a self-hosted monitoring client-server setup with multiple alert channels (email, SMS, PagerDuty, SNS, Slack)
- you need historical records of job executions and output for auditing

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained tool - the project is explicitly no longer being developed or supported
- you need Windows support or a modern container-native scheduler
- you want turnkey managed monitoring without running your own server, database, and reverse proxy

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: monitoring, alerting, scheduling, cli
- domain: monitoring, self-hosted, developer-tools
- platform: bsd, cli, ruby, self-hosted
- tags: cron, cron-jobs, job-monitoring, scheduler, web-ui, pagerduty, slack, twilio, aws-sns, sqlite, mysql, postgresql, devops, automation, command-line, linux, macos, web-server

## Member repositories
- jamesrwhite/minicron (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:36.961484+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:38:54.206954+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jamesrwhite/minicron (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:36.961484+00:00, sha f4138ecf78d3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.