Sigabrt.dev
cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI
Details
- External ID
- 49765354
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Sigabrt.dev
- Website domain
- sigabrt.dev
- Launched
- Sept. 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 81
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9019138755980861
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Description
Hello HN. I built this mostly to monitor the things I host myself. I know it's nothing too exciting.Anyway, the TL;DR is: Create an endpoint, and if your script/cronjob fails to regularly ping it, you get notified (by email or ntfy). E.g.: 0 * * * * ./script.sh && curl -fsS https://sigabrt.dev/pulse/<id>/beat It also has an SSH TUI which is currently experimental and read-only, mostly because I'm not sure whether it is actually useful or just a gimmick :): ssh sigabrt.dev To use it, simply add your SSH public key in your account settings.Yes, there are services like this already, and this is minimalistic by comparison. Feedback is welcome.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer infrastructure and monitoring utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- cron job monitoring for terminal users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Cron job heartbeat monitoring with an HTTP ping endpoint and a read-only SSH TUI dashboard is standard CRUD, scheduling checks, and basic SSH terminal handling (e.g. using Wish/Bubbletea).
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Cronic, kitaso.app, Graylog, Fluentd
Concerns raised: Heartbeat alone cannot diagnose temporary failures without logs, Closed source with paid pricing model, Handling jobs running longer than heartbeat interval, Unclear differentiation from mature existing tools
Feature requests: Start ping or job running signal, Immediate failure alerting, Log piping and output capture, Integration with Graylog or Fluentd, Built into cron daemon directly
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 111 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 112 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- ShellDash · hn · 2025-11-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Quietfail · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Pingtastic · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Vigil · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- OmnySSH · hn · 2026-06-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- your website as a TUI, over SSH right now · hn · 2026-07-08 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Samast Cron · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Doyouok · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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