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Cron job monitoring

Scheduled jobs check in when they start and finish. Miss a run, run too long or fail, and Parsemend opens an issue and alerts you.

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Parsemend cron monitor nightly-billing, schedule 0 3 * * * UTC, status error: the latest check-in failed after 4568 ms and the four nights before it were ok.
A nightly job whose last run failed. Demo project.
Schedules
crontab or interval
Set up
the first check-in creates the monitor
Missed run
after a 5-minute margin by default
Too long
after 30 minutes by default
node
await Sentry.withMonitor('nightly-billing', runBilling, {
  schedule: { type: 'crontab', value: '0 3 * * *' },
});

DeveloperYour coding agent can pick up any of these issues and fix it. How it works

Questions

Do I create monitors by hand?

No. The first check-in from your job creates the monitor, with the schedule it reports.

Can I check in without an SDK?

Yes. A check-in is a small HTTP request, so curl in a shell script works.

Which languages are supported?

PHP, Laravel and Node are verified end to end; other SDKs use the same protocol.

Monitors cannot be created from the dashboard; they appear on the first check-in.