Healthchecks.io, a simple but effective cron monitoring tool, alerts users if scheduled tasks such as backups and reports fail to run on schedule. Users can create a unique URL for each background task, and the platform will send notifications when jobs fail to ping within the specified timeframe. It features a dashboard that allows users to name, tag and organize their tasks. Users can track tasks in different states based on the timings of pings. These include "up," "late," and "down." Healthchecks.io supports cron expressions and logs events history. It also offers status badges that can be displayed publicly. Notifications can be sent via email, webhooks and Slack. They can also be sent through incident management tools such as PagerDuty or Opsgenie. The service is perfect for monitoring cron tasks, server processes, backups of databases, SSL renewals and more.