Silent failures create invisible outages
Background jobs stop quietly—billing, emails, and data pipelines drift until customers notice.
3am — your billing job stops. You only find out at 9am when the CFO asks why the report didn't arrive. Six hours of lost data, upset customers, revenue impact. SilentFail detects it in 2 minutes and wakes you up on Slack.
Invisible until users complain
Cron or queue jobs stop; you only find out from missing invoices or angry tickets.
Data and revenue drift
Stalled billing or ETL silently skews metrics, payouts, and reconciliations.
Alert fatigue or no alert
Without good signals you either get spammy false positives or miss the real incidents.
If it runs in the background, we watch it
Works with cron, queues, serverless jobs, and schedulers.
Cron & schedulers
Nightly billing, email digests, cleanups, syncs.
Queues & workers
Sidekiq, Celery, BullMQ, SQS, Resque, and more.
Serverless jobs
CloudWatch, EventBridge, Cloud Scheduler, Workflows.
Data pipelines
ETL/ELT, database backups, ingestion and enrichment jobs.
Add monitoring in seconds
// Ping when your job startsfetch("https://silentfail.dev/api/jobs/YOUR_JOB_ID/start", { method: "POST" });try { // Your job logic here await processQueue(); // Ping on success fetch("https://silentfail.dev/api/jobs/YOUR_JOB_ID/success", { method: "POST" });} catch (error) { // Ping on failure fetch("https://silentfail.dev/api/jobs/YOUR_JOB_ID/fail", { method: "POST" });}Built by engineers who lost sleep over silent failures
We built SilentFail because we got burned. Now we dogfood it on our own infra.
Robust infrastructure designed for high-throughput cron/queue-heavy systems.
Battle-tested internally: we monitor our own critical nightly jobs with these exact pings.
Zero dependencies: Just HTTP pings—no SDK lock-in, works instantly with any stack.
Early access perks: Direct channel with founders, responsive support, and feature requests.
SilentFail vs. status quo
See why simple HTTP pings beat the old way.
| Problem | Old solution | SilentFail |
|---|---|---|
| Job stops without notice | Find out when customer complains | Alert in 2 minutes |
| Complex setup | Heavy SDKs, long config | HTTP ping in 30s |
| False positives | Alert spam | Smart alerts by default |
| Cost | $50–200/mo enterprise tools | Start free, scale affordably |
Open-source monitoring you can audit
What you get
No bloat. No dashboards you'll never open. Just the monitoring that matters.
Get notified via email or Slack the moment a job fails or goes missing.
Set expected intervals. Get alerted only when jobs are actually late.
Email, Slack, or webhooks. Choose how you want to be notified.
Pricing that won't fail silently
Start monitoring in 2 minutes. Upgrade when you grow.