Process Monitoring
Monitor every process that runs on your app.
Cron jobs and workers fail silently. They just stop. No error, no warning, nothing, until something downstream breaks and a customer finds it before you do. AppSignal monitors every process you run and tells you the moment one fails, runs late, or stops.
Catch the job that never ran
A process that stops won’t page you. We will. The second it fails to start, finishes late, or runs long.
Monitor any process in your app
Cron, Sidekiq, queues, daemons, nightly scripts. If it runs, we can monitor it.
Two lines of code, and you're done
Drop a helper into your job and get occurrence-level insight in minutes. No agent, no sidecar, no YAML.
Every background process, one place
If it runs on a schedule, or should never stop, we monitor it.
Scheduled jobs
Your job pings us on start and finish, so we know it ran and ran on time. If one fails to start, fails to finish, or drifts off schedule, we tell you before the missing invoice does.
Long-running processes
Workers and daemons should never go quiet. We keep a heartbeat on them and alert you the second one goes silent.
Track any process
Not just for cron jobs.
Your code sends a ping on start, finish, or heartbeat. We do the rest. One helper, any process. Workers and daemons should never go quiet either — we keep a heartbeat on them and alert you the second one goes silent.
Cron jobs
Rake tasks
Nightly backups
ETL & data syncs
Invoice & billing runs
Report generation
Cache warming
Cleanup & purge jobs
Kubernetes
Lambda
Cron jobs
Rake tasks
Nightly backups
ETL & data syncs
Invoice & billing runs
Report generation
Cache warming
Cleanup & purge jobs
Kubernetes
Lambda
Sidekiq
Background daemons
Database replication workers
Kafka
RabbitMQ
SQS
Webhook delivery
Stream processors
Backup daemons
Long-running services
Sidekiq
Background daemons
Database replication workers
Kafka
RabbitMQ
SQS
Webhook delivery
Stream processors
Backup daemons
Long-running services
Simple setup
Two lines of code. Then it just runs.
No more jobs failing into the void. Drop the check-in helper into your code and you’re getting occurrence-level insight in minutes. That’s it.
def send_invoices
# ... your code here ...
Appsignal::CheckIn.cron("send_invoices")
enddef send_invoices do
# ... your code here ...
Appsignal.CheckIn.cron("send_invoices")
endimport { checkIn } from "@appsignal/nodejs";
function sendInvoices() {
// ... your code here ...
checkIn.cron("send_invoices");
}from appsignal.check_in import cron
def send_invoices():
# ... your code here ...
cron("send_invoices")More than alerting
From failure to fix, zero headaches.
Other monitors tell you a job broke. AppSignal tells you why. Click the failed run and see the error, the slow query, and the exact log lines. We’ve correlated it all for you.
Quick context
The health of any job, in one view.
Recent runtimes, performance, and statuses for every occurrence. Read a job’s health in a glance, not a query.
Occurrence-level detail
Inspect any single run.
Drill into one occurrence to see what changed, catch the slow ones, and fix the runs that actually hurt.
Logbook
Leave a trail for the next on-call.
Link the external issue, note the root cause, or leave your future self a clue. The next person paged will thank you.
Feature overview
Cron, uptime, and everything else. It's monitored.
Cron and uptime monitoring are just the start. When something breaks, AppSignal links every alert straight to the error, trace, and log behind it, so you’re not tabbing between tools to piece it together.
Process Monitoring
The jobs, workers, and tasks your users never see. The work that fails quietly, where nobody’s looking, until it bites.
Uptime Monitoring
Is the site up? Is the API answering? We ping every endpoint every minute from four locations worldwide, with a public status page included.
Connected workflow
Start from a failing uptime check or process run, then jump straight to related errors, traces, and logs without context switching.
What’s included
More than a cron monitor.
Tools like Cronitor tell you a job failed or ran late. AppSignal does that too, then hands you the error, trace, and logs from that run. No second product to wire up, no tabbing between dashboards. Often for the same or less.
Error tracking with backtraces
Full stack traces from failed runs
Performance monitoring and tracing
Slow queries and spans from the code that ran
Logs linked to failing jobs
The log lines from that run. No more manual searching.
Anomaly detection
Alerts when metrics drift from the norm
Alerting and incident workflow
Slack, PagerDuty, webhooks, and more
One bill for process monitoring and APM
No bolt-ons. One platform, one bill.
Frequently asked questions
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