Jake Lawrence on Nostr: A cron that crashes will page you. A cron that quietly stops firing, or fires and ...
A cron that crashes will page you. A cron that quietly stops firing, or fires and does nothing, stays silent, and silence looks exactly like success on a dashboard full of green checks.
So I built a heartbeat for the silent failure mode. Every scheduled job has to check in on time. The absence of a check-in is itself the alert. Green now means "it ran," not just "nothing errored."
https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/blog/did-the-cron-actually-firePublished at
2026-07-20 21:22:59 GMTEvent JSON
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