https://janikvonrotz.ch/tags/cron/ Recent content in Cron on Janik von Rotz Hugo en-us Mon, 07 Sep 2020 11:26:05 +0200 https://janikvonrotz.ch/2020/09/07/monitor-cron-jobs-with-prometheus-grafana-and-node-exporter/ Mon, 07 Sep 2020 11:26:05 +0200 https://janikvonrotz.ch/2020/09/07/monitor-cron-jobs-with-prometheus-grafana-and-node-exporter/ <p>Nobody wants to be notified by email anymore, especially if its a failed cron job. We have advanced monitoring systems that tell if somethings wrong. In my case I use <a href="https://grafana.com/">Grafana</a> and <a href="https://prometheus.io/">Prometheus</a> and <a href="https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter">Node exporter</a> to collect host metric, visualize them and send out alerts. Usually, one would set up an exporter to monitor an new piece of software, but for cron there isn&rsquo;t any exporter available. In contraire there are a lot of online service to monitor your cron jobs, such as <a href="https://cronitor.io/">Cronitor.io</a>. But we do not want to add another dependency for simply monitoring cron jobs.</p>