What exactly does "never-ran" alerting mean?
Every monitor in the kit watches for one event: a heartbeat. You arm a monitor after its job's first real ping. If an armed monitor has received no heartbeat at all — ever, or since period + grace elapsed — it alerts. That catches jobs whose schedules silently stopped firing, which failure handlers structurally cannot catch because no run ever happened.
How is this different from hosted cron monitors?
Hosted services charge every month, per monitor, and your heartbeat history sits in their database. This kit is a one-time purchase you self-host: your Worker, your KV, your alert channels, unlimited monitors for ฿0/month of tooling. You trade their convenience for ownership — that's the whole deal.
What do I need to run it?
A free Cloudflare account, Node 18+ on your machine for the one-time deploy, and at least one alert channel (a Telegram bot, a webhook URL, or a free Resend account for email). The Workers free plan comfortably covers the every-5-minutes evaluator plus your ping volume.
How fast does it detect a dead job?
Within periodMinutes + graceMinutes of the last expected ping, plus up to one 5-minute evaluation tick. A daily 02:00 job with 2 hours of grace is flagged by roughly 04:05 — same morning, not five days later when someone finally notices.
What does the license cover?
A single-buyer commercial license: one person or one company deploys it for all of their own jobs and internal services, forever. Redistributing or reselling the kit itself is not covered — each buyer needs a license.
What is the refund policy?
If the kit doesn't fit how you work, email [email protected] within 30 days of purchase and we'll refund you in full — the zip is yours to keep or delete. One refund per purchase; we only ask for optional feedback.
