Monitor Report Generation Cron Jobs
Guarantee every scheduled report reaches stakeholders
The problem
When the Monday morning revenue report doesn't arrive, the CEO pings the CTO, who pings the eng team, who discovers the cron job has been silently failing since Friday's deploy. Three days of missing reports, and nobody knew.
# Daily revenue report at 6 AM
$ crond-agent wrap --name "daily-revenue" -- node /app/reports/revenue.js
[crond.io] monitoring "daily-revenue" (every 24h)
[crond.io] ping sent ✓ (exit 0, 34s)
# Tuesday: database migration breaks the query
[daily-revenue] ERROR: column "total_gmv" does not exist
[crond.io] FAILURE ping — exit code 1
[crond.io] slack sent → #ops-alerts
How crond.io helps
crond-agent wraps your report generation scripts. Failed runs trigger instant alerts so you can fix them before anyone notices the report is missing. Stdout capture means you can see the error output without SSHing into the server.
- ✓Instant Slack/email alerts when report generation fails
- ✓Stdout/stderr capture — see error messages without SSH
- ✓Schedule verification — alerts if the job doesn't run on time
- ✓Works with any report tool: Node.js, Python, R, shell scripts
- ✓Duration tracking to catch reports that are taking progressively longer
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