# Scheduled task monitoring Your cron jobs (Linux) and scheduled tasks (Windows) are the heart of your data processing - backups, reports, imports, and cleanups. We can monitor every task and notify you if they haven't run on their scheduled times. [ Start monitoring ](https://ohdear.app/register) 10 day free trial No credit card required ## Why monitor your scheduled tasks? Sites quickly become data processing engines As websites grow in popularity, they usually grow in complexity too. What was once a simple site has now turned into a data processing engine, sending scheduled e-mails, converting data, importing from external sources, collecting metrics, ... Each of these actions is crucial to your application, yet they often go unmonitored. ## Our friendly instructions will help you every step of the way. It’s really not that complex It may sound complex to monitor all your scheduled tasks and cronjobs, but we make it super simple. Our friendly instructions will help you every step of the way. You can feel confident you're adding the correct monitoring to all your cron jobs. Powerful integrations- Our documentation will let you easily integrate your task monitoring in Laravel, WordPress, Drupal, ... No matter which framework or CMS you're using, we've got you covered. - We'll help you get started no matter if you're on Linux, Windows or BSD. There are even tightly integrated PHP packages available for Laravel and Symfony. ## Choose how we let you know when our crawler finds broken links or mixed content Receive our notifications on your preferred platform. Via email, SMS, Slack, Discord, Opsgenie, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, Pushover, ntfy, webhooks,… we can notify you wherever your team is active. Take notifications to the next level: only notify who needs notifying by assigning responsibilities to different team members. ## Keep an eye on the dashboard The performance for all your sites, at your fingertips Your dashboard will give you a bird's-eye view of all performance charts for your sites. If things are too slow, we'll clearly mark them out so you can quickly get a feel for all your websites in a single screen. You can click through to see extra information or configure the sensitivity of each alert. ## Stop worrying, start monitoring Start a no-strings-attached 10-day free trial. You're all set in less than a minute. (No credit card needed.) Not convinced yet? Need help? Get in touch via . ## Let's get technical (if you're into that) You don't need to be computer savvy to set up our tool. But if you are, we're happy to explain exactly how it works and how you can customize Oh Dear to your specific needs. 1 ### Bypassing CDNs or caching layers How to modify your code if you have a caching layer in between. 2 ### Providing memory usage, script duration and exit codes To send this data along, you can change the pingback URL to a POST call. 3 ### Providing active callbacks for failure states We don't have to wait for the frequency or grace time to expire. 4 ### Reporting failure via a simple GET call Every ping URL you see in your Oh Dear account can have the /failed path appended to it. 5 ### Reporting failure with details through a POST call A POST call to your endpoint with a non-zero exit\_code lets us know your script has failed. ## Really into the nitty gritty details? Want to get into the nitty gritty details of our monitoring? Have a look at our documentation. ## Frequently asked questions ### How do I monitor a cron job or scheduled task? Give the job a unique Oh Dear ping URL and have it ping when it runs. If the expected ping doesn't arrive on schedule, plus the grace period you set, Oh Dear alerts you that the job failed or never started. ### Can Oh Dear act as a heartbeat monitor for automations? Yes. Any process that can send an HTTP request can be heartbeat-monitored: cron jobs, queue workers, backups, data syncs. Silence past the deadline means an alert. ### Can Oh Dear monitor Windows scheduled tasks? Yes. Windows Task Scheduler jobs are monitored exactly like Linux cron: add a ping to the task, and Oh Dear alerts you when the task doesn't check in on time. [See all other FAQ items →](https://ohdear.app/docs/faq) ## Start monitoring instantly Start a no-strings-attached 10-day free trial. You're all set in less than a minute. (No credit card needed.) Not convinced yet? Need help? Get in touch via .