How to Monitor Cron Jobs: A Complete Guide (2026)
Learn why cron jobs fail silently and how to monitor them with a simple curl command. Covers log-based, heartbeat, and agent-based monitoring approaches.
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Practical guides on cron job monitoring and reliability.
5 Cron Job Failures That Will Wake You Up at 3 AM
Real stories of cron job failures: phantom backups, overlapping jobs, timezone disasters, silent permission errors, and dependency chain collapses.
Healthchecks.io vs Cronitor vs CronPulse: Cron Monitoring Compared
An honest comparison of the three most popular cron monitoring tools. Features, pricing, architecture, and which fits your use case.