Cron every hour

Runs at minute 0 of every hour, 24 times a day. If many jobs start at :00, spread them out with another minute, like 17 * * * *.

Every hour, on the hour.

Next runs

What each field means

FieldValueMeaning
Minute00
Hour*every hour
Day of month*every day
Month*every month
Day of week*any day of the week

Know when it doesn’t run

Cron never tells you when a job fails to start or dies halfway. Add a ping at the end of the line: if Heartcron doesn’t hear it on schedule, you get an alert in Telegram, Slack, Discord or email.

0 * * * * /path/to/job.sh && curl -fsS -m 10 --retry 3 https://ping.heartcron.com/<check-id> > /dev/null

Monitor this job for free How pings work

Common schedules