sigabrt - Cronjob monitor with SSH TUI
Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI
sigabrt is a dead-simple cronjob monitor that alerts you the moment your scheduled tasks fail to check in. Just add a curl command to the end of your script, and if the ping doesn't arrive on time, sigabrt emails you. It offers unlimited endpoints and heartbeats for €15/month, with a free tier of 10 heartbeats and no credit card required. For terminal enthusiasts, there's an SSH TUI to view endpoint status, schedules, and recent events. Alerts can be sent via email or ntfy, and you get 90 days of history. No agents, no libraries, no credentials—just silence when things are fine, and a notification when they're not.
Silence means it's fine. You only hear from us when a pulse doesn't arrive.
- p2004a
I'm myself very happy with https://healthchecks.io/ for this purpose.
- linsomniac
I've been toying with a similar idea for ~6 months: A lightweight job status dashboard.
I wanted something that required no setup, but could just push success/failure messages to as part of various cron jobs, windows tasks, and shell scripts we run throughout our organization.
StatShed server: https://github.com/statshed/statshed-server
StatShed go-cli: https://github.com/statshed/statshed-gocli
The idea is kind of like "ntfy.sh", but for jobs status. You can send a "started" message at the beginning, update a "status" message periodically throughout the job, then send a "failed" message (optionally with logs) or a "success". Then a web dashboard gives you an overview with ability to drill down.
We use Icinga for monitoring and paging, but this just gives an overview for a quick look at things we don't want heavy duty monitoring on. Like my laptop backups, information about ansible runs across our fleet, etc.
- mrweasel
If you need/want a dashboard it's kinda cool. There's a lot of other options that will do something similar, but not via SSH. Crontab can email you directly, no need for a service.
You could also just use systemd timers and do: systemctl --failed -t service