Features page (cron and scheduled task monitoring) — Oh Dear

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• Scheduled task monitoring Report an error

  “Cron job and scheduled task monitoring by heartbeat: give each job an Oh Dear ping URL to request when it runs, and get told when that request is late or never arrives.”

• Trial Report an error

  “10-DAY FREE TRIAL · NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED”

• Failure reporting Report an error

  “Request the /failed variant, or send a non-zero exit_code, and the task is marked failed immediately rather than waiting for a ping that is never coming.”

• Start finish ping Report an error

  “Request the /starting variant at the top of the script and the plain URL at the end, and Oh Dear knows how long the run took as well as that it happened.”

• Runtime detail Report an error

  “A POST can carry runtime in seconds, memory in bytes, an exit_code and a failure_message.”

• Schedule formats Report an error

  “Either a plain interval in minutes, or a real cron expression together with the timezone the server runs in.”

• Grace period Report an error

  “How late a check-in may be before the run counts as missed. New tasks start at five minutes, and you can raise it as far as a job that genuinely varies needs.”

• No agent Report an error

  “There is nothing to install and no agent. Linux cron, Windows Task Scheduler, queue workers, framework schedulers and one-off scripts all work, because all any of them has to do is request a URL.”

• Alert channels Report an error

  “S Slack E Email {} Webhook”

• Alert routing Report an error

  “A missed heartbeat is useless if it lands in a shared inbox nobody reads at 02:17. The person who can restart client A's Windows task is not the person on call for client B's scheduler, so each task routes to its own people.”

• Alert throttling Report an error

  “Repeat alerts for the same silent task are throttled rather than resent every minute, and the alert names the task so somebody can act on it.”

• Included all plans Report an error

  “Scheduled task monitoring is included on every plan. You pay for the number of things you monitor, not per check.”

• Plans scale Report an error

  “Plans scale by monitored site count”

• Not covered Report an error

  “Whether the backup restores, the report held the right rows, or the import matched your rules.”

• Distinct from ping and health Report an error

  “Ping monitoring is ICMP: did the host answer. A box can answer while the job never started.”

• Docs Report an error

  “Read the cron job monitoring documentation →”

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