Found out i needed a cron job monitoring tool

I have a simple application which posts to social media sites like facebook on a schedule basis.

I slowly started realizing that all the posts are being posted twice. I initially blamed my code and spent hours figuring out the root cause but of no use.

After further investigation, I found out that the cron job which posts them to social media sites is running on two servers. This extra server is a dummy server which i started to migrate the application. But i left it behind in the middle to focus on it when i have more time. But i did not realize that the cron job is running on this server.

I immediately stopped the cron job from the dummy server. Then i thought,

what if this cron job is processing payments?

what if this cron job is generating shipment labels for e-commerce store?

what if this cron job is doing a very critical task which should not be duplicated?

I thought others might be in the same boat and realized we should start monitoring our cron jobs.

That lead to the idea behind creating cronbuzz.