Healthchecks.io (Self-Hosted): Making Sure Your Cron Jobs Actually Ran

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Here is a story that has happened to almost everyone who has ever written a cron job. You set up a nightly backup. You test it once, it works, you feel responsible and adult. Eight months later you actually need that backup, and you discover it stopped running in March because of a full disk, an expired token, or a typo you made while “tidying up.” The cron job didn’t fail loudly. It failed silently, which is the worst way for anything to fail, and nobody told you because there was nobody to tell.

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Healthchecks.io (Self-Hosted): Making Sure Your Cron Jobs Actually Ran