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Your Cron Job Stopped Three Weeks Ago and Nobody Noticed
The most expensive outages are the ones with no symptoms. A look at how scheduled jobs die quietly, why humans are bad at noticing absence, and what to do about it.
Monty 5 minApr 19, 2026
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Monitoring Kubernetes CronJobs Without Building a Whole Observability Stack
Kubernetes will happily fail to schedule your CronJob and report nothing useful. Here is a lightweight way to know, plus the NAT gotcha that bites clusters at scale.
Monty 4 minOct 6, 2025
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How to Monitor Database Backups So You Find Out Before You Need Them
A backup job that exits zero is not a backup. Three layers of verification, from "did it run" to "can we actually restore", and where to put the alert.
Monty 5 minJul 24, 2025
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How to Monitor Cron Jobs Properly (And Why Exit Codes Are Not Enough)
Cron fails quietly by design. Here is why exit codes and log greps miss the most dangerous failure mode, and how heartbeat monitoring catches the job that never ran at all.
Monty 5 minMar 17, 2025