All Cron To Go Reviews
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Jeremy
Verified reviewer
Telecommunications, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2022
Excellent cron solution
We've got a bunch of scheduled processes that need to run at different intervals. It has been very easy to set up with CTG.
PROSI've tried other cron solutions on Heroku and they were pretty clunky to set up. Cron to Go is super easy to use. Essentially no config required.
CONSIt created a bit of an issue with monitoring since each cron job spins up a new dyno. We are currently creating 1000 dynos per hour and HostedGraphite doesn't cope well with that. (That's probably more of an issue with HG than CronToGo but it's the only con I can think of).
Reasons for switching to Cron To Go
Other systems were hard to use and not reliable
Vendor Response
Thanks for your feedback Jeremy! I'm not sure how you have Graphite set up for monitoring but since there's a solution how to ignore one-off dynos with Cron To Go and DataDog, there may be a solution waiting to be found for HostedGraphite as well! Check out our FAQ wrt Datadog - https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/crontogo#frequently-asked-questions
Replied February 2022
Myo
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2023
Versatile Cron Job Management
Heroku's free cron job manager "Heroku Scheduler" is not very flexible with the schedules and has no notification mechanism built in. Cron To Go came to the rescue with its flexibility.
CONSThe pricing tiers are based on the number of cron jobs and the price can really add up if you are running a complex enterprise system. Also, it will be nice to have Cron To Go as a platform-independent SAAS instead of being tied to Heroku.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your review! We are thinking about spinning Cron To Go out, so it won't only be tied to Heroku. I'd love to pick your brain about it whenever you're available. What do you think? :)
Replied September 2023
Tapan
Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2024
Cron To Go Review
It was an easy setup and scheduling of jobs for automation.
CONSLimitation on parallel jobs is the BIGGEST limitation running all jobs.
Vendor Response
Hi Tapan, You can ask Heroku to increase the limits on concurrent one-off dynos. Please see our docs here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/crontogo#debugging-failed-jobs
Replied March 2024
Rainy
Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed May 2023
Easy To Use
it is easy and good
PROSThis tool is easy to use for PostgreSQL work
CONSschedule job and set up envir as app in heroku both stg and prod environment
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback!
Replied May 2023
Ricardo
Consumer Goods, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2024
Worth the money
At first I wasn't sure why we had to pay to have a core functionality, but even if we were able to set up cron jobs the usual way in heroku, I would gladly pay for this service.
CONSI don't like to have a separate service/log in to be able to manage the software, but the tokenized log in is perfect.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review Ricardo! As a Heroku add-on, Cron To Go supports single-sign-on for Heroku users
Replied February 2024
Paul
Real Estate, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2023
Cron to Go Review
I like Cron to Go. It makes me automation tasks simple and it's also very reliable. Any failure we've had was due to our endpoint API that we're pushing data to.
PROSCron to Go is really easy to set up and use. I highly recommend it on this alone. The last thing you want to do when completing a project is hassle with setting up your automation environment.
CONSFiguring out Cron time, but this really isn't a big deal. There are free Cron time conversion calculators out there.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review! Check out our free cron editor (With built-in examples for everything imaginable and beyond!) in https://cronexpressiontogo.com/
Replied July 2023
Leifur
Computer Software, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2023
Best Heroku App for scheduling tasks
Amazing, I'm running a script file every hour, (the final product will only need it once a day), but for now it checks if any users in my database have a person on file whose birthday is today and if a match is found it gets their timezone and requested time to be notified and sends them an email at the appropriate time with Courier's email API
PROSAfter using Heroku Scheduler I absolutely love Cron To Go. The difference is really astonishing. Scheduler has no dashboard no nothing to help you, whereas Cron to Go has an amazing dashboard that is very easy to use and understand with a suprising number of very helpful features. Its cheaper and actually has decent documentation unlike most Heroku scheduling apps. I love it!
CONSI would love to see timezones as an option for lower tier plans, it's a somewhat basic thing and I implemented it myself in the script file I'm running since it wasn't offered for the basic plan, but would be cool to have it.
Reasons for switching to Cron To Go
Because it stopped working, I couldn't even access the app on Heroku or Heroku Cli, it was some internal server error on their end. I submitted a ticket and the devs did fix it but I was trying to develop my app at the time and couldn't wait.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your review and feedback!
Replied September 2023
Bart
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2023
Great software and great support
It's the best way I know to run consistent jobs in Heroku.
PROSI love that I can pretty much set and forget. The history keeps me informed as I hunt down what went wrong with any job's kick-off. Some of my history was missing once and their support and responsiveness was awesome!
CONSNothing really. I am considering upgrading to get the alerts and notifications for failed jobs. Eventually we will set up the API to make it even more integrated.
Reason for choosing Cron To Go
No brainer.
Reasons for switching to Cron To Go
Heroku scheduling makes no guarantees that your job will actually be kicked off when you want. Cron To Go hasn't missed a beat.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review and feedback!
Replied June 2023
Arvind
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2023
Powerful & flexible
The user interface is powerful, and surfaces everything we need. The statuses are very clear, and it's an instant dashboard that can be reviewed immediately. I also like the translation of the cron schedule and the presets available for the non-tech savvy.
CONSNot really a con as much as a callout - this product makes the most sense and yields the most power if you are comfortable with cron.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your feedback! We've recently added the option to schedule jobs using simple rate expressions for the less tech savvy and you can always check out our hundreds of examples and cron tutorials in https://cronexpressiontogo.com
Replied December 2023
Gavin
E-Learning, 11-50 employees
Used monthly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2024
Does what we want it to
It integrates with Heroku easily so we can schedule tasks to run for our app daily.
CONSIts UI could be a bit more clear on what is going on for each item.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback! Please feel free to contact us with specifics about what could be clearer in the UI!
Replied March 2024
Andrew
Apparel & Fashion, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed May 2023
We Love Cron To Go
We love Cron to Go and at this point it's an integral part of our software architecture.
PROSThe ability to run multiple jobs separately from our application has been crucial to our business. Setting up new jobs to run is simple and we have experience very few issues with the service overall.
CONSWe really have no issues with Cron To Go other than being able to customize exactly who receives what alerts/notifications for specific jobs.
Vendor Response
Thank you so much for your feedback!
Replied May 2023
Bob
E-Learning, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed May 2023
Simple and effective!
Overall, I absolutely love Cron To Go. It's so much simpler than maintaining your own cron schedule, and for the price it really is a no-brainer.
PROSThe UI is extremely intuitive. I love the guidance you get when generating the schedule using the cron syntax.
CONSWe wanted our cron job definitions to live in our code repository, so we had the same history and review process as the rest of our code. We had to use the Cron To Go API to achieve this. It would be nice if this was a first-class feature.
Vendor Response
Hey Bob! You can use a manifest file in your code repo with our CLI as part of your CI/CD - check out the guide here: https://crontogo.com/blog/how-to-update-my-cron-to-go-jobs-on-heroku-using-the-release-phase/
Replied May 2023
Jagadish
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2022
Easy to use scheduler
Liked the product overall. Would recommend it to others as well.
PROSWe primarily use the product to schedule tasks such as deployment pipelines. The product is very easy to use and does the job that it is designed for perfectly well!
CONSThe UI for changing schedules should be made easier. Currently we use 5 tasks for different deployment pipelines. If I have to change the schedule for them, I have to go into each of them one-by-one and change the schedule. It would better to have a checkbox based selection of jobs for pausing, triggering and changing schedules.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback! We are looking into adding methods to bulk edit jobs as well as CI/CD integration so that you'll be able to define jobs as part of your app.
Replied January 2022
Henry
Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2023
Easy to use for non-technical folks
I use it to automate scripts
PROSIt's easy to use for people without a strong engineering background. The UI is friendly as well. I haven't experienced any bugs so far.
CONSNone so far. No bugs or issues that I've encountered yet!
Reasons for switching to Cron To Go
Costs
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback!
Replied April 2023
Jake
Sports, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2022
Cron To Go saved me tons of time
The setup for Cron To Go was incredibly easy. It has been reliable since Day 1 and is pivotal to the success of our app.
CONSNot much to dislike here. I would really enjoy an easy Slack integration for failed jobs but the webhooks and emails for failed job notifications suffice for now.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the response! We'll look into adding Slack notifications!
Replied January 2022
Joseph
Entertainment, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2023
Does what I need
Would recommend.
PROSEasy deployment, has worked perfectly, lets me know when tasks fail.
CONSThe logs don't seem to load up, although that hasn't caused me any problems.
Reasons for switching to Cron To Go
Not enough options and granular control of timing etc.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback! Job logs are pulled directly from your app logs and are not stored by Cron To Go. Due to Heroku's log history limits, logs may not be available. For more production-ready persistence of logs, we recommend to use one of the Heroku platform's available logging add-ons to your app. For more information, see here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/crontogo#monitoring-and-logging
Replied May 2023
Isak
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2022
Simple, affordable and powerful job scheduler.
Easy to setup as an Heroku-addon. Reliable and allows for running one-time jobs and powerful scaling options.
CONSWould be nice with a tier that's cheaper than the current bronze ($9/month) for scheduling a single job.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback!
Replied September 2022
Stephen
Hospital & Health Care, 2-10 employees
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Easy Cron Schedules for Heroku
Been using a long running app that checks and runs a cron job at given times and this is much easier and I have more visibility into what is actually going on. I also love that I can run the jobs on an adhoc basis.
CONSI wish the same account could extend across multiple Heroku apps.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your review Stephen! For the sake of simplicity, Cron To Go only attaches to a single app (so you always know which app the jobs will run on), and you can use our CLIs, APIs and job import feature to copy jobs between apps.
Replied August 2023
Lidor
Verified reviewer
E-Learning, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2022
The best Cron tool in Heroku
Really simple and easy to configure and use. Reliable & flexible, with great notifications. It really allows us to focus on the work and not on technicalities. The support is amazing!!! super helpful and quick
CONSnothing yet... it's a really great product!
Vendor Response
Thank you so much for your feedback!
Replied February 2022
Brian
Apparel & Fashion, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2023
Cron To Go is easy to use and has good notifications
It is easy to add a job and rerun jobs. I like that I can run a job and look at the logs all in the UI. I like that the slack integration was very easy too.
CONSI would like better tolerance for failures. Like we have some jobs that fail once or twice but they run every minute or so. I would like to be notified only if they fail 3 times in a row.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your feedback! We'll take it into account!
Replied April 2023
Filipp
Internet, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed October 2023
Great for Rapid Prototyping
Overall, great for startups that need proof of concept or MVP deployment
PROSReally good for rapidly deploying small tasks that need to run routinely without too much hassle.
CONSconcurrent runtime can be complicated based on pricing plan.
Reason for choosing Cron To Go
More reliable runtime
Vendor Response
Thanks for your review! To have more concurrent jobs, you'll have to increase your concurrent one-off dynos with Heroku by opening a ticket with them.
Replied October 2023
Vincent
Verified reviewer
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2022
Easy to setup and monitor
We have a lot of jobs (more than 40) on our project, and it was essential to find a solution with enough flexibility that's easy to set up and especially to analyse the logs in case of issues.
PROSEasy to set up. Easy to access the logs. And the possibility to migrate from different environments/servers is advantageous.
CONSProbably a bit expensive when you need a lot of tasks per day.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your feedback! Cron To Go doesn't limit the number of daily (or monthly) executions - only the number of jobs you create. If you need a custom plan, don't hesitate to reach out to us!
Replied January 2022
Grant
Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2023
A Review Needs a Title?
It gets the job done.
PROSIt's integrated into Heroku. I would've just added cron jobs to the EC2 my site is running on, but that is not intuitive considering how much is abstracted away on the Heroku platform.
CONSI have to sign in to my Heroku account and then navigate to Cron To Go through the Heroku platform because of (I'm assuming) how the SSO is handled. I can't just go straight to Cron To Go whenever I see a job failed, for instance.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your feedback!
Replied April 2023
Lucas
Design, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2023
Awesome!
The UI is very clean and easy to use. I love the simplicity of it
CONSSo far everything is working really well.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review and feedback!
Replied June 2023
Frankyston
Internet, 2-10 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2023
Very Good
Very Good
PROSTask manager for its simplicity and easy to use.
CONSOf everything I've used, there's nothing I would change.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review!
Replied October 2023