Email Notifications

A cron job that silently fails is worse than no cron job at all — you think it's running, but it went down yesterday. QuzenixCron emails you when something breaks.

How It Works

After the retry loop runs out and the job is still failing, QuzenixCron increments the consecutive_failures counter. Once it hits the notify_after_failures threshold, an email is sent to your account address.

What's in the Email

A failure email includes:

  • Job name + URL endpoint
  • Schedule (cron expression)
  • Attempt count (how many times it tried before giving up)
  • HTTP status code from the last attempt
  • Error message (timeout, 500 Internal Error, etc.)
  • Direct link to the job in your dashboard
  • Timestamp of when it ran

Adjusting the Threshold

In the job edit form, there are two settings:

  • Notify on failure — toggle on/off. When off, no emails are ever sent.
  • Notify after N failures — the minimum number of consecutive final failures before an email goes out. Default is 1 (notify immediately after the first failure).
When to use a threshold higher than 1
If your endpoint occasionally hiccups (shared hosting, spotty network), setting 2–3 means one blip won't wake you up. But for critical jobs like nightly backups, keep it at 1 — you want to know the moment something's wrong.

Reset Counter

The consecutive_failures counter resets to 0 on any successful execution. A fail-succeed-fail pattern will never build up as fast as a fail-fail-fail one.

Sent From

Emails come from noreply@quzenixcron.com. To make sure they don't end up in spam, whitelist this domain in Gmail or Outlook the first time.

Chat Notifications (Pro & Business)

On Pro and Business plans, failure alerts also go to chat — no inbox to check, just a message in the channel you already have open. Connect any combination of Telegram, Slack, and Discord in Settings and every job failure lands there automatically. See Telegram, Slack, and Discord Notifications in the sidebar for setup guides.

Disabling Notifications

Turn off the Notify on failuretoggle in the job form. Your job keeps running and execution logs are still recorded — you just won't get any emails.

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