Introduction

Crontinel monitors your background jobs, queue depths, and cron schedules. It reads framework internals – not just HTTP pings – so you know what’s actually happening inside your app.

The problem

Generic monitors check whether a URL returns 200 or whether a heartbeat arrived. They cannot tell you:

That your Laravel Horizon supervisor for the emails queue silently crashed
That queue depth is at 8,000 and climbing
That send-invoices ran but exited with code 1

Crontinel hooks into your app directly and surfaces this data.

How it works

The OSS package (crontinel/laravel) installs in your Laravel app and:

Reads Horizon’s Redis keys for supervisor and pause state
Queries queue depths from Redis or the database
Listens to Laravel’s scheduler events to record every cron run

The optional SaaS at app.crontinel.com gives you a hosted multi-app dashboard, longer history retention, team access, and alerts.

Plans and pricing

Crontinel has a generous free tier: one app, up to 5 monitors, 7-day history. No credit card required.

Paid plans unlock additional apps, longer history (30–90 days), team collaboration, and priority support. See the full pricing page for details.

The self-hosted package is MIT licensed and free for unlimited use — no SaaS required.

Open source first

The core package is MIT licensed. Install it in two commands and get a full dashboard with no account required:

composer require crontinel/laravel
php artisan crontinel:install