Mobile App / Webhooks for Notifications? about cron-job.org

[martin-braun]

Okay, I came up with a solution: https://github.com/martin-braun/cronmon

This is a proxy for cron-job.org. It allows to specify your API keys and exposes a simple endpoint that will evaluate lastStatus of all your jobs from the cron-job API. Now I can use any mobile app that tracks services being online. I keep it simple. If any job is lastStatus > 1 (indicating any kind of issue) it will return a HTTP status 504 instead of 200.

I can now use any monitor app. If the endpoint reports an issue, I will simply check what's going on by hand.

I can get rid of my heavy email client on my mobile now.

[pschlan]

Great stuff, thanks for sharing!

Sooner or later an app would be nice, I think, but it's quite some effort to get it right for Android + iOS and getting it through all the approvals.

Additionally, I've been thinking about adding support to add WebHook notifications. With those, you could easily integrate a "universal" app like Pushover or almost any other notification mechanism.

[martin-braun]

@pschlan Webhooks definitely would be a compromise, or any deep integration to a notification service, as long as it's open source. My solution works, but it's not perfect as even web monitor apps have limited options.