Healthchecks follow each job’s own cron expression, in its own time zone. Watch 20 jobs free, or 1,000 on one plan, next to your uptime monitors and status page.
20 healthchecks free. No credit card required.
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For 50 jobs, Dead Man’s Snitch costs less: $19 a month for up to 100. Its largest plan stops at 300 jobs for $49, and past that you call sales. Hyperping’s plans go to 1,000 monitors, shared with your uptime checks.
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| Monthly priceUSD, monthly billing, one user | HyperpingHealthchecks count as monitors | Dead Man’s SnitchPlans by number of snitches |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 20 jobsShared with uptime monitors | 1 jobThe Lone Snitch, hourly to monthly |
| 50 jobs | $29Essentials, $24 billed yearly | $19Private Eye, up to 100 jobs |
| 500 jobs | $299Business, $249 billed yearly | Contact salesSurveillance Van stops at 300 jobs, $49 |
| Also in the price | Uptime monitors, status pages, on-call for monitorsWithin the same monitor count | Cron monitoring onlyUnlimited team members |
Dead Man’s Snitch prices read on its pricing page on , in USD at monthly billing. Hyperping’s are on pricing: healthchecks come with every plan and count toward its monitors.
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| Cron job monitoringUSD list prices |  Healthchecks on every plan | Dead Man’s SnitchPrivate Eye · $19/mo for 100 jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Where Dead Man’s Snitch is stronger | ||
| 50 jobs | $29/moEssentials, 50 monitors | $19/moPrivate Eye, up to 100 jobs |
| Users | 3 seatsOn Essentials, then $7 each | UnlimitedOn every paid plan |
| Run history | 15 daysLast 20 pings and a 24-hour chart | 2 years |
| Exit codes and job output | Not includedNot stored | IncludedExit codes with Field Agent, alerts on Surveillance Van |
| Microsoft Teams and webhooks | Not includedNot for healthchecks, only for uptime monitors | IncludedOn Private Eye and above |
| Check in by email | Not includedHTTP pings: HEAD, GET or POST | IncludedEmail, Heroku Scheduler and Amazon SNS too |
| Where Hyperping makes the difference | ||
| Cron expressions with a time zone | IncludedOr every N minutes, hours or days | Not includedFixed intervals, in UTC |
| More than 300 jobs | 1,000 on Business$299/mo, shared with uptime checks | Contact salesPlans stop at 300 snitches |
| Free plan | 20 healthchecksShared with uptime monitors | 1 snitchHourly, daily, weekly or monthly |
| SMS alerts | IncludedFrom the plan’s credits, from Essentials | Not includedPush notifications in its mobile app |
| Uptime monitors in the same plan | IncludedEvery 30 seconds on paid plans, from 17 regions | Not includedCron and heartbeat checks only |
| Status pages | IncludedOn every plan, public or private on Pro | BadgesStatus badges, no status page |
| On-call and escalation for uptime monitors | IncludedFrom Essentials. Healthchecks alert every channel at once | Not includedHanded to PagerDuty or Opsgenie |
| What both do | ||
| A URL per job, alert when it stays silent | IncludedGrace period of 1 minute or more | Included |
| Slack, PagerDuty and Opsgenie alerts | IncludedPagerDuty and Opsgenie from Essentials | IncludedOn Private Eye and above |
| Start pings and run duration | IncludedPing /start, then the URL | IncludedWith Field Agent |
| API | IncludedHealthchecks API, hyperping_healthcheck resource and MCP | IncludedOn paid plans |
Watching a few jobs? 20 healthchecks are free.
Get started freeDead Man’s Snitch does one thing simply: a URL per job, and an alert when it stays silent. For 50 jobs it costs less, $19 a month for up to 100, every paid plan includes unlimited team members, and history goes back two years.
Jobs can also check in by email, through Heroku Scheduler or Amazon SNS, and its Field Agent reports exit codes. Alerts reach Microsoft Teams and webhooks, which Hyperping’s healthchecks don’t.
Dead Man’s Snitch checks in on fixed intervals, in UTC. A job that runs at 2:00 Paris time on weekdays only has no interval that fits. A Hyperping healthcheck takes the job’s own cron expression and time zone, so the deadline follows the schedule, daylight saving time included.
Its plans also stop at 300 jobs. Hyperping goes to 1,000 monitors on Business for $299 a month, with uptime checks, a status page and on-call for your websites and APIs in the same count. See cron job monitoring for how healthchecks work.
A missed run alerts email and SMS to the project’s members, Slack, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty and Opsgenie, all at once, and the next ping sends the recovery. Healthchecks have no escalation policy, on-call schedule, Teams, webhook or phone call: those belong to uptime monitors. To page whoever is on call for a job, route it to PagerDuty or Opsgenie.
Hyperping stores neither exit codes nor job output. A /start ping logs how long a run took, the dashboard keeps the last 20 pings and a 24-hour chart, and pings are kept for 15 days. Everything is in the healthchecks docs.
If your jobs run on simple intervals and you only need to know they ran, Dead Man’s Snitch is simple and cheap. When schedules follow cron expressions and time zones, or the list passes 300, it stops fitting.
Hyperping watches each job on its own schedule, next to your websites, APIs and status page, on one plan. Every tool side by side: the best cron job monitoring tools.
List your snitches from the Dead Man’s Snitch API, recreate each one as a healthcheck, then change one line per job.
# Every snitch, with its interval and tags
curl -u "$DMS_API_KEY:" \
"https://api.deadmanssnitch.com/v1/snitches"Its API lists every snitch with its interval, alert type and tags. Give each healthcheck the job’s real cron expression and time zone instead of the interval.
Dead Man’s Snitch API docsresource "hyperping_healthcheck" "nightly_backup" {
name = "Nightly database backup"
cron = "0 2 * * *"
timezone = "Europe/Paris"
grace_period_value = 30
grace_period_type = "minutes"
}
output "backup_ping_url" {
value = hyperping_healthcheck.nightly_backup.ping_url
sensitive = true
}Declare one hyperping_healthcheck per job, with its cron expression, time zone and grace period, and output its ping URL. The healthchecks API and the dashboard do the same.
Terraform provider# Before
0 2 * * * /usr/local/bin/backup.sh && curl https://nosnch.in/c2354d53d2
# After: the backup pings Hyperping when it succeeds
0 2 * * * /usr/local/bin/backup.sh && curl -fsS --retry 3 https://hc.hyperping.io/tok_8f3kq2Lm9xV4Point each job at its healthcheck’s ping URL and run both for a few days. Ping /start when the job begins to log how long each run takes. When the alerts match, remove the old check-in.
Read the healthchecks docsHyperping, if your jobs run on cron expressions or in a time zone other than UTC, or if you also want uptime checks and a status page. Healthchecks work like snitches, one URL per job, and 20 are free. Healthchecks.io and Cronitor are the other dedicated tools: see the best cron job monitoring tools.
The Lone Snitch is free for one job. Little Birdy is $5 a month for 3, Private Eye $19 for 100 with integrations, and Surveillance Van $49 for 300 with Smart Alerts and error notices. Past 300 jobs, you contact sales.
No. A snitch checks in on a fixed interval, from a minute to a month, and everything runs in UTC. A Hyperping healthcheck takes a 5-field cron expression and an IANA time zone, or a simple interval. See the healthchecks docs.
List your snitches from its API with your API key, with their intervals and tags. Recreate each one as a healthcheck by hand, with the healthchecks API or with Terraform, using the job’s real cron expression where an interval stood in for it. Then point each job at its new ping URL and keep both for a few runs.