HelloCron Docs

HelloCron is a monitoring platform for cron jobs, scheduled tasks, HTTP endpoints and SSL certificates.

Quick links


Introduction	What HelloCron is and how it works
Quick Start	Send your first ping in 2 minutes
Authentication	API keys
POST /ping	Full API reference
Swagger UI	Interactive API explorer
AI agents and MCP	Let Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor set it up

Ecosystem

How the HelloCron apps fit together: integrations send pings to the Ping API, agents talk to the MCP server, HelloCron itself probes your websites, events are processed into alerts, the dashboard and status pages

Every integration is open source on GitHub:

Repository	What it does	Get started
hellocron/cli	Shell client: wraps cron jobs and scripts with `run` / `complete` / `fail` pings	Shell script guide
hellocron/laravel	Laravel package: every Scheduler task reports its runs automatically	Laravel guide
hellocron/php	PHP SDK: pings from any PHP app, monitors as code with a management key	`composer require hellocron/php`
hellocron/ping-action	GitHub Action: reports scheduled workflow runs	`uses: hellocron/ping-action@v1`
hellocron/agent-plugin	Skills and MCP connection for Claude, Codex, Cursor and ChatGPT	AI agents guide

Features

Ping API: wrap any job with a run / complete / fail lifecycle
HTTP monitoring: uptime checks with configurable intervals
SSL monitoring: certificate expiry alerts
Dashboard: real-time event stream, failure analytics, slow job tracking
Multi-user: each user has their own API key and monitor namespace
AI agents: Agent Skills, a hosted MCP server and a plugin for Claude Code, Codex and ChatGPT