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How long of a job do you need to run? We use Azure Timer Functions and/or Logic Apps to run and monitor our jobs. All of those languages are supported.
Some jobs have crazy deps, like puppeteer or selenium, I wonder if you can setup complex environment dependencies with FaaS (docker base image maybe?)
I run cron jobs using sidekiq-cron and monitor them using https://cronitor.io .
Rundeck is a pretty good tool to schedule, save logs and the like. At my work we have a rundeck server connect via ssh to differents vm and execute the script there, you can configure alarms, parallel execution, plenty of steps it's pretty good you should try it out.
Many teams use Rundeck for scheduled jobs and runbook automation. It gives you a nice UI and a measure of governance around the process. https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/learning/
A little overkill, but airflow. Free, has history, language agnostic, retries, can handle a large number of time based tasks.
Regarding monitoring: I've come to rely on healthchecks.io to ensure my cron jobs when like I expect.
crontab to run them dogwrap (command-line tool for datadog) to monitor them
How do you deal with the CICD/delivery of your CRON code then using crontab?
Jenkins can work quite well for this. It keeps logs, success/failure, has hooks for multiple notifications and etc.
Our core issue is that it is a too much tech software, we would like to have PM/PO looking at the health status of things. We could build a dashboard about jobs status elsewhere for sure. But we are hoping to find a better tech to deliver, run and monitor jobs, all in one.
There are SaaSes for this, like https://cronhub.io