An EU-hosted cron-job.org alternative, with heartbeats too
MOJAQ calls your URL on a schedule (cron-as-a-service) and also watches the cron jobs you already run, via heartbeats, so you catch both a failed scheduled call and a job that silently never ran — EU-hosted, alongside errors, uptime, logs and more.
EU-hosted in Helsinki · GDPR-native · free during the beta, no fixed end date
MOJAQ vs cron-job.org
| MOJAQ | cron-job.org | |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled HTTP calls | Yes | Yes |
| Heartbeat / dead-man monitoring | Yes — for your own jobs | Limited |
| Data residency | EU — Helsinki | Germany / varies |
| Status & duration per run | Yes | Yes |
| Also included | Errors · Uptime · Logs · Analytics · more | Cron only |
| GDPR / DPA | GDPR-native, DPA included | Varies |
| Price | Free during the open beta | Free / paid tiers |
Both directions of cron, in one place
Scheduled-call services fire an HTTP request on a timer, which is half the problem. The other half is knowing whether the jobs you run yourself, the nightly backup, the queue worker, the data export, actually ran. Miss that and a job can fail silently for weeks.
MOJAQ does both: it calls your URL on a schedule, and it gives you heartbeats so your own jobs ping a URL when they finish. If a ping stops arriving, the check goes down and you hear about it. One tool covers the failed call and the job that never ran.
EU-hosted, and not a single-purpose tab
Endpoints, schedules and job names describe your infrastructure, so even cron metadata belongs in your residency story. MOJAQ keeps it in Helsinki, with a DPA included.
And because scheduling and heartbeats are part of one platform, they sit next to your uptime monitors, errors, logs and analytics, so downtime, a failed cron and the error it caused line up in the same dashboard instead of three.
Switching is easy
Recreate your scheduled calls in MOJAQ (name, URL, interval). Then add heartbeats for the jobs you run yourself, so a silent failure turns into an alert instead of a surprise.
Questions
What's the difference between scheduled calls and heartbeats?
Scheduled calls: MOJAQ calls your URL on an interval. Heartbeats: your job pings MOJAQ when it runs, and if the ping stops you get alerted. You often want both.
Is it EU-hosted?
Yes — Helsinki, with a GDPR DPA included.
What does it cost?
Free during the open beta, with no fixed end date; paid plans are announced in advance.
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