Introduction

gocron is a lightweight scheduled task centralized scheduling and management system developed in Go language, designed to replace Linux-crontab.

Key Features

Web Interface: Intuitive web UI for creating, editing, and monitoring tasks
Second-level Precision: Crontab expressions with second-level precision
Task Execution Methods: Shell command execution and HTTP request invocation
High Availability: Database-lock-based leader election, automatic failover in seconds
Task Dependency: Supports task dependency configuration
Task Retry: Configurable retry policies for failed tasks
Single Instance Execution: Prevents duplicate task execution
Agent Auto-Registration: One-click task node installation for Linux/macOS
Access Control: Comprehensive multi-user and permission management
Security Authentication: Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) and TLS mutual authentication
AI Assist: Natural-language to cron, AI failure-log diagnosis, and an AI ops chat assistant — backed by any OpenAI-compatible model (cloud or self-hosted/local)
MCP Support: Remote management by AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.) via the Model Context Protocol, secured with web-managed access tokens
Multi-Database: MySQL / PostgreSQL / SQLite support
Log Management: Complete execution logs with search and auto-cleanup
Notifications: Email, Slack, and Webhook support

Please refer to the following documentation to get started with gocron: