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Notes on keeping scheduled jobs honest — why they fail quietly, how to tell when a run went wrong, and the schedule details that trip people up.

• August 21, 2026 · 6 min read

  Cron job monitoring compared: Healthchecks, Cronitor, Dead Man's Snitch

  An honest look at the main cron and heartbeat monitoring services — pricing models, free tiers, self-hosting, and where each one fits.

• July 17, 2026 · 7 min read

  Exit code 0 but the backup was empty: catching cron jobs that lie

  A job can finish with exit code 0 and still have done the wrong thing — an empty dump, a partial sync, a half-written report. How to catch the runs that succeed on paper.

• June 12, 2026 · 6 min read

  How to know if your cron job silently failed

  Cron won't tell you when a job stops running. Here's why scheduled jobs fail silently, and the practical ways to find out before it costs you.