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Cron To Go

Cron To Go is a fully managed distributed, scalable and reliable cloud scheduler that allows you to schedule virtually any job on your Heroku applications. Cron To Go provides the convenience of having all of your scheduling needs attended to in just one add-on.

  • Automated, flexible background task scheduling
  • Notifications and monitoring
  • Easy troubleshooting and debugging

Slack

Slack is a single workspace that brings the right people, information, and tools together in order to get work done and drive projects forward. With Slack you can find and access your team and work, on any device - at the office or on the go.

  • Minimize incidents and downtime
  • task management
  • enterprise-grade security at every layer

How does it work?

Connect Cron To Go to Slack in order to keep your team alert and notified when jobs start, complete or fail. With Cron To Go’s webhook notifications you can stay on top of any possible incidents.

  1. Click Add to Slack and follow the instructions to authorize Cron To Go to post messages to a Slack channel in your workspace.
  2. Copy the webhook URL generated at the end of the authorization flow.
  3. In your Cron To Go dashboard, go to Webhooks and create a new webhook.
  4. Paste the webhook URL in the Endpoint field and change the type to Slack.
  5. Select the topics and add optional filtering rules.
  6. Click Add webhook.
  7. Click the new webhooks menu button (...) and select Ping webhook to test your new webhook.