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Alerting on cron and background jobs that never ran, hung, or did nothing (in 6 languages)

Our HTTP alerting was in good shape. 500s, slow endpoints, error rates: all covered. Yet the incidents that hurt most kept coming from somewhere else: The 02:00 invoice job never started , because the…

  • RunSignal monitors cron and background jobs across 6 programming languages
  • Provides metrics for success, failure, cancellation, duration, and handled items
  • Ensures alerting even if processes die or do nothing

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