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Sigabrt.dev

cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI

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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.

HN · launched Sep 19, 2026 · 81 upvotes (top 10%) · 0 views

Niche: system resource and cron job monitoring utilities · 42 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Observability & eval
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product

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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 : 213 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #25 of 214 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.

  • CronPulser · ph · 2026-11-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • ShellDash · hn · 2025-11-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • CronBeat · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • OmnySSH · hn · 2026-06-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Pingtastic · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Quietfail · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • gitswitch.dev · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Vigil · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46

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