Productivity

Monitor Linear with MrCron

MrCron mirrors Linear backlog, unstarted, and in-progress issue counts every 5 minutes so you can watch cycle health on the same dashboard as your deploys and errors.

How MrCron monitors Linear

  • Backlog, unstarted, and in-progress issue counts per Linear team.
  • Completed-this-week issue count per team.
  • Auth-failure detection with an amber Rotate key CTA when the API key stops working.
  • Alert rules that fire on backlog size thresholds via any notification channel.

What you will see

Backlog, unstarted, in-progress issues + completed-this-week count.

Auth flow: API Key. Credentials are stored encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM and never returned to your browser.

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Frequently asked questions

What Linear credentials does MrCron need?
A Linear personal API key from the account settings API page. MrCron stores it encrypted at rest.
Does MrCron read issue bodies?
No. MrCron reads issue state and count metadata only. Titles and descriptions are never fetched into MrCron.
Can I attach multiple Linear teams?
One integration per MrCron project. Split multi-team orgs across multiple MrCron projects if you want separate counts.
Can I alert on a swelling backlog?
Yes. Create an alert rule on the linear_backlog metric with a threshold above your team baseline and route it to any notification channel.
Want the full concept-level detail? See MrCron docs for how projects, checks, and sync cadence work.