Vercel cron alternative: what to use when built-in cron isn't enough

Vercel's built-in cron has limitations, including no failure alerts, limited execution history, and a 1-hour minimum interval on the Hobby plan. If you're hitting these limitations, consider using an external tool like Tickstem for scheduling, failure alerts, heartbeat monitoring, and uptime checks. Tickstem offers email alerts, full execution history, and response assertions to verify endpoint success. It's best for developers who need robust scheduling and monitoring without managing multiple tools. Register your Vercel endpoint as a cron job with Tickstem to get started.