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Show HN: ConfigClarity – Visualize cron overlaps before they crash your server

https://www.configclarity.dev/
9•metriclogic•1h ago
Built this after dealing with overlapping cron jobs that quietly exhausted server resources. The cron daemon will happily spawn multiple copies of your script simultaneously until your server runs out of memory — with no warning. Paste your crontab (supports standard crontab -l format), and it shows a 24-hour timeline with overlap detection, Server Load Warnings, and human-readable job descriptions. No signup. No data leaves your browser. Everything runs client-side. Would love feedback from anyone who runs cron jobs in prod. https://configclarity.dev

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metriclogic•1h ago
Happy to answer questions about how the parser handles edge cases, or why I chose client-side only. Also curious — do you manually check for cron overlaps today, or just find out when something breaks?
keerti_ece•54m ago
Honestly? Find out when something breaks. Had a backup job and a DB vacuum running at the same time last year, took down prod for 20 minutes before I figured out what happened. Wish I’d had something like this.
metriclogic•8m ago
20 minutes of downtime is exactly the kind of thing this was built to prevent. Hope it helps next time.
karthik291193•54m ago
How does it handle jobs that run on different servers? Like if I have 5 machines all running their own crontabs, the overlap problem is actually across hosts not just within one crontab.
metriclogic•9m ago
Single host for now. Multi-host is a real problem but wanted to nail the common case first — most people don't know they have single-host overlaps until something breaks.
stop50•47m ago
That is why i moved to systemd timers. I can manage relationships and prevent duplicate runs.
metriclogic•12m ago
Fair point — systemd timers solve this properly. This is for the massive installed base that isn't migrating anytime soon.

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