Cron expression generator
Pick how often a job should run and get the cron expression for it, explained in plain English with the next run times.
Good to know
- What are the five fields?
- Minute, hour, day of the month, month and day of the week, in that order. * means every value, */5 means every fifth, and 1-5 is a range, like Monday to Friday.
- Which time zone does cron use?
- Your server's, which is often UTC. Check before scheduling something for a particular local time.
- Know when a job doesn't run
- Add a heartbeat monitor: your job pings a URL when it finishes, and Spot Downtime alerts you if the ping is late.
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