Skip to content

Topic

Cron Job Monitoring

The practice of tracking whether scheduled and recurring jobs actually ran, usually by having each job report in to a server that alerts when the expected check-in is late.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Healthchecks turns the missing backup ping into the alarm

Self-hosted Healthchecks v4.4 expects every cron job to check in after a successful run, and it alerts when the ping is late by more than the grace time. Getting the container up takes three settings the guides get wrong.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption12
Hype gap+9
Incentives28
Confidence61