🧪Pre-production testing for cron jobs

Test your cron jobs
before they fail in production.

Catch the bugs that monitoring tools would alert you about—before you deploy. Validate timing, test payloads, fix environment issues. Ship with confidence.

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↑ Go ahead, try it.

Cron's dirty secret:
it's not running what you think it is

Your script runs perfectly in the terminal. You add it to crontab. You wait. Nothing happens.

Sound familiar? Cron executes with a minimal environment—no PATH, no aliases, different working directory. Most cron failures aren't logic bugs. They're environment mismatches.

CronLabs lets you test in cron's environment before you deploy. Find the issues now, not at 3am.

Your pre-deploy checklist

Four steps to catch issues before they become 3am alerts.

1🔍

Validate your expression

Paste your cron expression and instantly see when it will run. Catch edge cases before they bite.

0 9 * * 1-5 → Weekdays 9am ✓
2📡

Point to our webhook

Add a curl to your script. We capture every request so you can see exactly what your job sends.

curl -X POST cronlabs.dev/catch/...
3🌍

Fix environment mismatches

See why your script works locally but fails in cron. Compare PATH, variables, and more.

PATH: /usr/bin vs ~/.local/bin
4🚀

Deploy with confidence

Know your job will run when expected, send what you expect, and not fail at 3am.

✓ Tested → ✓ Deployed → 😴 Sleep

Test what your script sends.
Before it's running in prod.

Point your script at a CronLabs endpoint during development. See exactly what gets sent—headers, body, timing—before you deploy.

No more "I think it's sending the right data." Know for sure.

webhook.cronlabs.dev/catch/x7k2m9listening
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Built because we needed it

After the third 3am wake-up for a cron job that "should have worked," we built the tool we wished existed. Now you can use it too.

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Testing, not monitoring

📊

Monitoring tools

Cronitor, Better Uptime, etc. watch your production jobs and alert you when something fails.

"Your job failed at 3am. Here's an alert."

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CronLabs

Test before you deploy. Validate timing, inspect payloads, fix environment issues—before they become production problems.

"Caught the bug before deploying. Slept through the night."

Use monitoring tools in production. Use CronLabs before you get there.

Test first. Deploy confident.

Your cron jobs deserve the same testing workflow as the rest of your code. Stop finding bugs in production.

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