LastRun

LastRun is a monitoring service for cron jobs, background tasks, and webhooks that focuses on the Vercel and Next.js ecosystem. It alerts users when a job silently fails, is missed, or never fires by expecting a ping from each scheduled job. The platform is intended to catch missed cron invocations that would otherwise produce no logs without requiring rewrites or a new runtime. Users can configure monitors by declaring a schedule and timezone, then having their jobs check in via a ping endpoint.

The pricing is flat with no per-monitor meter, so the price does not move whether monitoring one cron or a hundred. The Pro plan costs $9 per month or $90 per year billed by Lemon Squeezy as the merchant of record. Taxes are included, and users can cancel anytime from Settings.

To get started, users must declare the schedule by naming the job, setting the cron expression or interval it's supposed to follow in any timezone with DST handled, and adding a grace period. Next, the job checks in by making a request at the end of the job using curl, fetch, or the withMonitor() wrapper. Finally, LastRun notices the silence and sends an alert if no ping arrives by the schedule plus grace period.

The process involves three steps: declaring the schedule, pinging the endpoint, and sleeping while LastRun notices the silence. If a ping is missing by the schedule plus grace period, the system sends one alert via email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, or webhook, and one recovery notice. It never floods the user with alerts.

LastRun schedules live in real timezone, whereas Vercel crons are UTC-only. The platform handles DST and allows users to set the timezone for their jobs. This ensures that the monitoring aligns with the actual time the job is supposed to run.

The service keeps run history for 90 days, while Vercel only keeps logs for a day. The run history includes status, duration, and captured output for every run. Paired start/finish pings compute real durations, which Vercel does not keep.

The platform offers a free tier with email alerts and daily reminders until resolved, plus stuck-run detection and run insights like success rate and p50/p95 durations. The Pro plan adds Slack, Discord, Telegram, and webhook alerts, public status pages, and 90-day ping history. Both plans include a team workspace with invite capabilities.

The refund policy allows contacting support within 14 days of a charge to request a refund. Accidental or unwanted renewals are also refunded if reached out to promptly. Approved refunds go back to the original payment method and typically take about 5–10 business days to appear on the statement.

Users can cancel Pro at any time from Settings → Plan or the billing portal. There is no cancellation fee and no contract. When cancelled, Pro features stay active until the end of the paid period, after which the workspace moves to the Free plan automatically.

The service alerts on the run that never happened, which is a failure mode no log line, error tracker, or 5xx-rate alert can see. It also provides run insights like success rate, p50/p95 durations, and stuck-run detection. The platform is designed to catch missed cron invocations that would otherwise produce no logs.

You can reach LastRun by e-mail at support@eastbase.studio.

The official website of LastRun is lastrun.dev.

LastRun has no reviews on Trustburn yet. Anyone who has used it can write the first review on its Trustburn page.