A practical heartbeat monitoring setup for cron jobs, backups, billing jobs, and other silent background failures.
Cron jobs fail in a different way than web pages.
A homepage failure is visible. A bad deploy breaks something a user can click. A failed background job can disappear quietly for days.
That is why heartbeat monitoring is one of the first checks I would set up for a small SaaS.
The short version
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