Tickstem — cron jobs, uptime monitoring and heartbeat checks for Vercel apps

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Built this because Vercel’s built-in cron is limited and there’s no native way to know if your scheduled functions actually ran successfully

Tickstem gives you:

  • Reliable HTTP cron — schedule any endpoint, get execution history, retries, and email alerts on failure

  • Uptime monitoring — HTTP checks on a schedule, alerts when your endpoint goes down

  • Heartbeat monitoring — auto-generated ping URL; if your function doesn’t check in on time, you get alerted

All under one API key, free tier available. Works with any framework on Vercel.

Vercel Weekly (2026-05-11)
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Update: Tickstem now includes status pages that auto-generate from your uptime monitors and heartbeat checks — no manual “we’re investigating” posts needed.

The page reflects your actual monitor state in real time. If your monitors are green, the page is green. If an endpoint goes down, the page updates automatically. You get a public URL at https://tickstem.dev/status/your-slug — shareable with users, no separate service needed.

Works well alongside Vercel deployments: monitor your API routes, set up a heartbeat on your background jobs, and your status page stays current without any manual updates.

Free tier includes 5 monitors and a status page.

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Update: Tickstem now has an MCP server — if you use Claude Code or Cursor alongside your Vercel projects, your AI assistant can register cron jobs, create uptime monitors, and set up heartbeat checks directly from the editor.

Remote option (no install): connect via https://mcp.tickstem.dev/mcp — works with any MCP-compatible client.

Local binary option: go install github.com/tickstem/mcp/cmd/tsk-mcp@latest

Same API key you’re already using. Useful when you’re scaffolding a new Vercel project and want the agent to wire up monitoring as part of the build.

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